European ministers agreed on Monday to add eight Iranians and one of the Tehran government’s most powerful bodies to EU sanctions lists, Trend reports citing Al Arabiya.

The individuals – including clerics, judges and a broadcaster – are accused of playing leading roles in Iran’s brutal crackdown on anti-government protests.

The EU said it was in particular “sanctioning members of the judiciary responsible for handing down death sentences in unfair trials and for the torturing of convicts”.

SOURCE: TREND NEWS AGENCY