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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-168/annex",
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  "legislation_title": "Council Decision 2012/168/CFSP of 23 March 2012 amending Decision 2011/235/CFSP concerning restrictive measures directed against certain persons and entities in view of the situation in Iran",
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  "text": "List of persons referred to in Article 2\nName\nIdentifying information\nReasons\nDate of listing\n1.\nZARGHAMI Ezzatollah\nAs Head of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), he is responsible for all programming decisions. IRIB has broadcast forced confessions of detainees and a series of \"show trials\" in August 2009 and December 2011. These constitute a clear violation of international provisions on fair trial and the right to due process.\n23.3.2012\n2.\nTAGHIPOUR Reza\nPOB: Maragheh (Iran)\nDOB: 1957\nMinister for Information and Communications. As Minister for Information, he is one of the top officials in charge of censorship and control of internet activities and also all types of communications (notably mobile phones). During interrogations of political detainees, the interrogators make use of the detainees' personal data, mail and communications.\nOn several occasions following the last presidential election and during street demonstrations, mobile lines and text messaging were blocked, satellite TV channels were jammed and the internet locally suspended or at least slowed down.\n23.3.2012\n3.\nKAZEMI Toraj\nColonel of the technology and communications police, he recently announced a campaign for the recruitment of government hackers in order to achieve better control of information on the internet and attack \"dangerous\" sites.\n23.3.2012\n4.\nLARIJANI Sadeq\nPOB: Najaf (Iraq)\nDOB: 1960 or August 1961\nHead of the Judiciary. The Head of the Judiciary is required to consent to and sign off every qisas (retribution), hodoud (crimes against God) and ta'zirat (crimes against the state) punishment. This includes sentences attracting the death penalty, floggings and amputations. In this regard, he has personally signed off numerous death penalty sentences, contravening international standards, including stoning (16 people are currently under stoning sentence), executions by suspension strangulation, execution of juveniles, and public executions such as those where prisoners have been hung from bridges in front of crowds of thousands. He has also permitted corporal punishment sentences such as amputations and the dripping of acid into the eyes of the convicted. Since Sadeq Larijani took office, arbitrary arrests of political prisoners, human rights defenders and minorities have increased markedly. Executions have also increased sharply since 2009. Sadeq Larijani also bears responsibility for systemic failures in the Iranian judicial process to respect the right to a fair trial.\n23.3.2012\n5.\nMIRHEJAZI Ali\nDeputy Chief of the Supreme Leader's Office and Head of Security. Part of the Supreme Leader's inner circle, responsible for planning the suppression of protests which has been implemented since 2009.\n23.3.2012\n6.\nSAEEDI Ali\nRepresentative of the Guide for the Pasdaran since 1995 after spending his whole career within the institution of the military, and specifically in the Pasdaran intelligence service. This official role makes him the key figure in the transmission of orders emanating from the Office of the Guide to the Pasdaran's repression apparatus.\n23.3.2012\n7.\nRAMIN Mohammad-Ali\nPOB: Dezful (Iran)\nDOB: 1954\nMain figure responsible for censorship as Vice-Minister in charge of the Press up to December 2010, he was directly responsible for the closure of many reforming newspapers (Etemad, Etemad-e Melli, Shargh, etc), closure of the Independent Press Syndicate and the intimidation or arrest of journalists.\n23.3.2012\n8.\nMORTAZAVI Seyyed Solat\nPOB: Meibod (Iran)\nDOB: 1967\nDeputy Interior Minister for Political Affairs. Responsible for directing repression of persons who speak up in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression.\n23.3.2012\n9.\nREZVANI Gholomani\nDeputy Governor of Rasht. Responsible for grave violations of the right to due process.\n23.3.2012\n10.\nSHARIFI Malek Ajdar\nHead of the judiciary in East Azerbaijan. Responsible for grave violations of the right to due process.\n23.3.2012\n11.\nELAHI Mousa Khalil\nProsecutor of Tabriz. Responsible for directing grave human rights violations of the right to due process.\n23.3.2012\n12.\nFAHRADI Ali\nProsecutor of Karaj. Responsible for grave violation of human rights in demanding the death sentence for a juvenile.\n23.3.2012\n13.\nREZVANMANESH Ali\nProsecutor. Responsible for grave violation of human rights in demanding the death sentence for a juvenile.\n23.3.2012\n14.\nRAMEZANI Gholamhosein\nCommander of IRGC Intelligence. Responsible for grave human rights violation of persons who speak up in defence of their legitimate rights, including freedom of expression. Heads Department responsible for the arrest and torture of bloggers/journalists.\n23.3.2012\n15.\nSADEGHI Mohamed\nColonel and Deputy of IRGC technical and cyber intelligence. Responsible for the arrests and torture of bloggers/journalists.\n23.3.2012\n16.\nJAFARI Reza\nHead of special prosecution of cyber crime. In charge of arrests, detentions and prosecutions of bloggers and journalists.\n23.3.2012\n17.\nRESHTE-AHMADI Bahram\nDeputy Prosecutor in Tehran. Runs Evin prosecution centre. Responsible for the denial of rights, including visits and other prisoner's rights, to human rights defenders and political prisoners.\n23.3.2012",
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