Khodadadi Taghanaki, Soghra

"... current director of Qarchak Women’s Prison, was responsible for ordering and directly participating in a violent attack on December 13, 2020 against prisoners of conscience in Ward 8 along with at least 20 other guards. According to publicly available reports, prison guards beat these female prisoners of conscience with batons and stun guns. Khodadadi ordered this attack in retaliation for the prisoners exercising their right to freedom of expression." ¹

"Soghra Khodadadi Taghanaki is the director/warden in the Qarchak Women’s Prison. The prison is known for inhumane detention conditions, including poor health and sanitary conditions, refusal of medical care, food shortages, excessive use of force against prisoners, torture, sexual assault and extrajudicial killings. Qarchak prison is one of the main places where women arrested during the peaceful 2022/2023 protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s Morality Police are being held. Soghra Khodadadi Taghanaki is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations in Iran."² 

"Soghra Khodadadi TAGHANAKI is an "involved person" under the Iran (Sanctions) (Human Rights) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 because she is or has been involved in the commission of serious human rights violations or abuses in Iran through her position as the Warden of Qarchak Women's Prison."³ 

Source:

1. https://home.treasury.gov/

2. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.LI.2023.051.01.0013.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2023%3A051I%3ATOC 

3. https://docs.fcdo.gov.uk/docs/UK-Sanctions-List.html