The Council of the EU added, on Monday 12 April, eight security officials and three prisons to the list of persons and entities deemed responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran. According to the EU Council, they played a role in the violent response to the November 2019 protests.
Hossein Salami, Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gholamreza Soleilmani, head of the IRGC’s Basij organisation, an organisation that used lethal force to suppress...