EU ministers adopt Iran sanctions over citizen detentions

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers on Monday adopted sanctions against seven Iranian individuals and two organisations over the detention of EU citizens, which the bloc calls a policy of state-sponsored hostage-taking, diplomats said.

A list of those sanctioned, seen by Reuters, included the director of Tehran's Evin prison and several judges and other judicial officials. The main prison in the city of Shiraz was among the organisations sanctioned.

(Reporting by John Irish and Andrew Gray; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta)