US blacklists two Iranians for violations of human rights

Mar 10, 2021, 1:09 AM (GMT+2)

The State Department on Tuesday designated two Iranians for their “involvement in gross violations of human rights”, The Hill reported.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement that he was designating Ali Hemmatian and Masoud Safdari, two interrogators with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), for “their involvement in gross violations of human rights, namely the torture and/or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment (CIDTP) of political prisoners and persons detained during protests in 2019 and 2020 in Iran.”