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Council Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 of 12 April 2011 concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons, entities and bodies in view of the situation in Iran

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ANNEX IU.K. List of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 2(1)

Persons

NameIdentifying informationReasonsDate of listing
1.AHMADI-MOQADDAM EsmailPOB: Tehran (Iran) - DOB: 1961Chief of Iran’s National Police. Forces under his command led brutal attacks on peaceful protests, and a violent night time attack on the dormitories of Tehran University on June 15, 2009.
2.ALLAHKARAM HosseinAnsar-e Hezbollah Chief and Colonel in the IRGC. He co-founded Ansar-e Hezbollah. This paramilitary force was responsible for extreme violence during crackdown against students and universities in 1999, 2002 and 2009.
3.ARAGHI (ERAGHI) Abdollah

Deputy Head of IRGC’s Ground Forces.

He had a direct and personal responsibility in the crackdown of protests all through the Summer of 2009.

4.FAZLI AliDeputy Commander of the Basij, former Head of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province (until February 2010). The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps is in charge of security in Tehran province and played a key role in brutal repression of protesters in 2009.
5.HAMEDANI HosseinHead of the IRGC’s Rassoulollah Corps in charge of Greater Tehran since November 2009. The Rassoulollah Corps is in charge of security in greater Tehran, and played a key role in violent suppression of protesters in 2009. Responsible for the crackdown of protests through Ashura events (December 2009) and since.
6.

JAFARI Mohammad-Ali

(a.k.a. “Aziz Jafari”)

POB: Yazd (Iran) - DOB: 1.9.1957General Commander of the IRGC. IRGC and the Sarollah Base commanded by General Aziz Jafari has played a key role in illegally interfering with the 2009 Presidential Elections, arresting and detaining political activists, as well as clashing with protestors in the streets.
7.KHALILI AliIRGC General, Head of the Medical Unit of Sarollah Base. He signed a letter sent to the Ministry of Health June 26 2009 forbidding the submission of documents or medical records to anyone injured or hospitalized during post-elections events.
8.MOTLAGH Bahram HosseiniHead of the IRGC’s Seyyed al-Shohada Corps, Tehran Province. The Seyyed al-Shohada Corps played a key role in organising the repression of protests.
9.NAQDI Mohammad-RezaPOB: Najaf (Iraq) – DOB: Circa 1952

Commander of the Basij. As commander of the IRGC’s Basij Forces, Naqdi was responsible for or complicit in Basij abuses occurring in late 2009, including the violent response to the December 2009 Ashura Day protests, which resulted in up to 15 deaths and the arrests of hundreds of protesters.

Prior to his appointment as commander of the Basij in October 2009, Naqdi was the head of the intelligence unit of the Basij responsible for interrogating those arrested during the post-election crackdown.

10.RADAN Ahmad-RezaPOB: Isfahan (Iran) – DOB:1963Deputy Chief of Iran’s National Police. As Deputy Chief of National Police since 2008, Radan was responsible for beatings, murder, and arbitrary arrests and detentions against protestors that were committed by the police forces.
11.RAJABZADEH AzizollahFormer Head of Tehran Police (until January 2010). As Commander of the Law Enforcement Forces in the Greater Tehran, Azizollah Rajabzadeh is the highest ranking accused in the case of abuses in Kahrizak Detention Center.
12.SAJEDI-NIA HosseinHead of Tehran Police, former Deputy Chief of Iran’s National Police responsible for Police Operations. He is in charge of coordinating, for the Ministry of Interior, repression operations in the Iranian capital.
13.TAEB HosseinPOB: Tehran - DOB: 1963Former Commander of the Basij (until October 2009). Currently deputy IRGC commander for intelligence. Forces under his command participated in mass beatings, murders, detentions and tortures of peaceful protestors.
14.SHARIATI Seyeed HassanHead of Mashhad Judiciary. Trials under his supervision have been conducted summarily and inside closed sessions, without adherence to basic rights of the accused, and with reliance on confessions extracted under pressure and torture. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.
15.DORRI-NADJAFABADI Ghorban-AliPOB: Najafabad (Iran) - DOB: 1945Former Prosecutor General of Iran until September 2009 (former Intelligence minister under Khatami presidency). As Prosecutor General of Iran, he ordered and supervised the show trials following the first post-election protests, where the accused were denied their rights, an attorney. He also carries responsibility for the Kahrizak abuses..
16.

HADDAD Hassan

(alias Hassan ZAREH DEHNAVI)

Judge, Tehran Revolutionary Court, branch 26. He was charge of the detainee cases related to the post election crises and regularly threatened families of detainees in order to silence them. He has been instrumental in issuing detention orders to the Kahrizak Detention Centre.
17.Hodjatoleslam Seyed Mohammad SOLTANIJudge, Mashhad Revolutionary Court. Trials under his jurisdiction have been conducted summarily and inside closed session, without adherence to basic rights of the accused. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.
18.HEYDARIFAR Ali-AkbarJudge, Tehran Revolutionary Court. He participated in protesters trial. He was questioned by the Judiciary about Kahrizak exactions. He was instrumental in issuing detention orders to consign detainees to Kahrizak Detention Centre
19.JAFARI-DOLATABADI AbbasProsecutor general of Tehran since August 2009. Dolatabadi’s office indicted a large number of protesters, including individuals who took part in the December 2009 Ashura Day protests. He ordered the closure of Karroubi’s office in September 2009 and the arrest of several reformist politicians, and he banned two reformist political parties in June 2010. His office charged protesters with the charge of Muharebeh, or enmity against God, which carries a death sentence, and denied due process to those facing the death sentence. His office has also targeted and arrested reformists, human rights activists, and members of the media, as part of a broad crackdown on the political opposition.
20.

MOGHISSEH Mohammad

(a.k.a. NASSERIAN)

Judge, Head of Tehran Revolutionary Court, branch 28. He is in charge of post-election cases. He issued long prison sentences during unfair trials for social, political activists and journalists and several death sentences for protesters and social and political activists.
21.MOHSENI-EJEI Gholam-HosseinPOB: Ejiyeh -DOB: circa 1956Prosecutor General of Iran since September 2009 and spokesman of the Judiciary (former Intelligence minister during the 2009 elections). While he was Intelligence minister during the election, intelligence agents under his command were responsible for detention, torture and extraction of false confessions under pressure from hundreds of activists, journalists, dissidents, and reformist politicians. In addition, political figures were coerced into making false confessions under unbearable interrogations, which included torture, abuse, blackmail, and the threatening of family members.
22.MORTAZAVI SaidPOB: Meybod, Yazd (Iran) - DOB: 1967Head of Iran’s Anti-smuggling Task Force, former Prosecutor general of Tehran until August 2009. As Tehran Prosecutor General, he issued a blanket order used for detention of hundreds of activists, journalists and students. He was suspended from office in August 2010 after an investigation by the Iranian judiciary of his role in the deaths of three men detained on his orders following the election.
23.PIR-ABASSI AbbasTehran Revolutionary Court, branches 26 and 28. He is in charge of post-election cases, he issued long prison sentences during unfair trials against human rights activists and has issued several death sentences for protesters.
24.MORTAZAVI AmirDeputy Prosecutor of Mashhad. Trials under his prosecution have been conducted summarily and inside closed session, without adherence to basic rights of the accused. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.
25.SALAVATI AbdolghassemJudge, Head of Tehran Revolutionary Court, branch 15. In charge of the post-election cases, he was the Judge presiding the “show trials” in summer 2009, he condemned to death two monarchists that appeared in the show trials. He has sentenced more than a hundred political prisoners, human rights activists and demonstrators to lengthy prison sentences.
26.SHARIFI Malek AdjarHead of East Azerbaidjan Judiciary. He was responsible for Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani’s trial.
27.ZARGAR AhmadJudge, Tehran Appeals Court, branch 36. He confirmed long-term jail warrants and death warrants against protesters.
28.YASAGHI Ali-AkbarJudge, Mashhad Revolutionary Court. Trials under his jurisdiction have been conducted summarily and inside closed session, without adherence to basic rights of the accused. As execution rulings were issued en masse, death sentences were issued without proper observance of fair hearing procedures.
29.BOZORGNIA MostafaHead of ward 350 of Evin Prison. He unleashed on a number of occasions disproportionate violence upon prisoners.
30.ESMAILI Gholam-HosseinHead of Iran’s Prisons Organisation. In this capacity, he was complicit to the massive detention of political protesters and covering up abuses performed in the jailing system.
31.SEDAQAT FarajollahAssistant Secretary of the General Prison Administration in Tehran - Former Head of Evin’s prison, Tehran until October 2010 during which time torture took place. He was warden and threatened and exerted pressure on prisoners numerous times.
32.ZANJIREI Mohammad-AliAs Deputy Head of Iran’s Prisons Organisation, responsible for abuses and deprivation of rights in detention center. He ordered the transfer of many inmates into solitary confinement.

ANNEX IIU.K. List of competent authorities in the Member States referred to in Articles 4(1), 5(1), 7 and 9(1), and address for notifications to the European Commission

A.

Competent authorities in each Member State:

  • BELGIUM

    http://www.diplomatie.be/eusanctions

  • BULGARIA

    http://www.mfa.bg/bg/pages/view/5519

  • CZECH REPUBLIC

    http://www.mfcr.cz/mezinarodnisankce

  • DENMARK

    http://www.um.dk/da/menu/Udenrigspolitik/FredSikkerhedOgInternationalRetsorden/Sanktioner/

  • GERMANY

    http://www.bmwi.de/BMWi/Navigation/Aussenwirtschaft/Aussenwirtschaftsrecht/embargos.html

  • ESTONIA

    http://www.vm.ee/est/kat_622/

  • IRELAND

    http://www.dfa.ie/home/index.aspx?id=28519

  • GREECE

    http://www.mfa.gr/www.mfa.gr/en-US/Policy/Multilateral+Diplomacy/Global+Issues/International+Sanctions/

  • SPAIN

    http://www.maec.es/es/MenuPpal/Asuntos/Sanciones%20Internacionales/Paginas/Sanciones_%20Internacionales.aspx

  • FRANCE

    http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/autorites-sanctions/

  • ITALY

    http://www.esteri.it/MAE/IT/Politica_Europea/Deroghe.htm

  • CYPRUS

    http://www.mfa.gov.cy/sanctions

  • LATVIA

    http://www.mfa.gov.lv/en/security/4539

  • LITHUANIA

    http://www.urm.lt

  • LUXEMBOURG

    http://www.mae.lu/sanctions

  • HUNGARY

    http://www.kulugyminiszterium.hu/kum/hu/bal/Kulpolitikank/nemzetkozi_szankciok/

  • MALTA

    http://www.doi.gov.mt/EN/bodies/boards/sanctions_monitoring.asp

  • NETHERLANDS

    http://www.minbuza.nl/sancties

  • AUSTRIA

    http://www.bmeia.gv.at/view.php3?f_id=12750&LNG=en&version=

  • POLAND

    http://www.msz.gov.pl

  • PORTUGAL

    http://www.min-nestrangeiros.pt

  • ROMANIA

    http://www.mae.ro/node/1548

  • SLOVENIA

    http://www.mzz.gov.si/si/zunanja_politika/mednarodna_varnost/omejevalni_ukrepi/

  • SLOVAKIA

    http://www.foreign.gov.sk

  • FINLAND

    http://formin.finland.fi/kvyhteistyo/pakotteet

  • SWEDEN

    http://www.ud.se/sanktioner

  • UNITED KINGDOM

    www.fco.gov.uk/competentauthorities

B.

Address for notifications to or other communication with the European Commission:

European Commission

Foreign Policy Instruments Service

CHAR 12/106

1049 Bruxelles/Brussel

BELGIUM

E-mail: relex-sanctions@ec.europa.eu

Tel.: +32 22955585

Fax: +32 22990873

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