text: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
  
      This Act may be cited as the ``Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act''.
  
  SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
  
      Congress makes the following findings:
              (1) Iran voted in the United Nations General Assembly on 
          December 10, 1948, to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human 
          Rights, thereby committing to guarantee the ``life, liberty, 
          and security of person'' of all people and rejecting ``cruel, 
          inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment''.
              (2) Iran is a party to major international human rights 
          instruments.
              (3) The Government of Iran is violating its international 
          obligations to respect the human rights and fundamental 
          freedoms of its citizens, including by--
                      (A) using torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading 
                  treatment or punishment, including flogging, and 
                  amputations;
                      (B) carrying out an increasingly high rate of 
                  executions in the absence of internationally recognized 
                  safeguards, including public executions;
                      (C) using stoning as a method of execution and 
                  maintaining a high number of persons in prison who 
                  continue to face sentences of execution by stoning;
                      (D) carrying out arrests, violent repression, and 
                  sentencing of women exercising their right to peaceful 
                  assembly, a campaign of intimidation against women's 
                  rights defenders, and continuing discrimination against 
                  women and girls;
                      (E) permitting or carrying out increasing 
                  discrimination and other human rights violations 
                  against persons belonging to religious, ethnic, 
                  linguistic, or other minorities;
                      (F) imposing ongoing, systematic, and serious 
                  restrictions of freedom of peaceful assembly and 
                  association and freedom of opinion and expression, 
                  including the continuing closures of media outlets, 
                  arrests of journalists, and the censorship of 
                  expression in online forums such as blogs and websites; 
                  and
                      (G) imposing severe limitations and restrictions on 
                  freedom of religion and belief, including by carrying 
                  out arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions, and 
                  lengthy jail sentences for those exercising their 
                  rights to freedom of religion or belief and proposing a 
                  provision in a draft penal code that sets out a 
                  mandatory death sentence for apostasy, the abandoning 
                  of one's faith.
              (4) On June 19, 2009, the United Nations High Commissioner 
          for Human Rights expressed concerns about the increasing number 
          of arrests not in conformity with the law and the illegal use 
          of excessive force in responding to protests following the June 
          12, 2009, political processes in Iran, resulting in at least 
          dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.
              (5) On August 1, 2009, authorities in the Government of 
          Iran began a mass trial of more than 100 individuals in 
          connection with election protests, most of whom were held for 
          weeks, in solitary confinement, with little or no access to 
          their lawyers or families, and many of whom showed signs of 
          torture or abuse.
              (6) The ``Supreme Leader'' of Iran issued a statement on 
          October 28, 2009, effectively criminalizing dissent in the 
          aftermath of the national political processes of June 12, 2009.
              (7) On November 4, 2009, security forces in the Government 
          of Iran used brutal force to disperse thousands of protesters, 
          resulting in a number of injuries and arrests, in violation of 
          international norms regarding the proportionate use of force 
          against peaceful demonstrations.
              (8) At least 8 citizens of Iran were killed and an 
          undetermined number were injured on December 27, 2009, when 
          security forces of the Government of Iran violently broke up 
          peaceful gatherings during the Ashura holiday.
              (9) The Government of Iran has recently sentenced numerous 
          Iranian citizens to death without due process for politicized 
          crimes relating to the peaceful demonstrations that followed 
          the June 12, 2009, political processes, including ``waging war 
          against God'', and has begun carrying out those execution 
          sentences, including the death by hanging of 2 individuals on 
          January 28, 2010.
              (10) The Iran Freedom Support Act (Public Law 109-293; 50 
          U.S.C. 1701 note) declares that it should be the policy of the 
          United States--
                      (A) to support efforts by the people of Iran to 
                  exercise self-determination over the form of government 
                  of their country; and
                      (B) to support independent human rights and 
                  peaceful pro-democracy forces in Iran.
  
  SEC. 3. IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS ON CERTAIN PERSONS WHO ARE COMPLICIT IN 
                HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES COMMITTED AGAINST CITIZENS OF IRAN OR 
                THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AFTER THE JUNE 12, 2009, POLITICAL 
                PROCESSES IN IRAN.
  
      (a) In General.--The President shall impose sanctions described in 
  subsection (c) (1) and (2) with respect to each person on the list 
  required by subsection (b), beginning not later than the date on which 
  the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees the 
  list required by subsection (b)(1) or the updated list required by 
  subsection (b)(2) (as the case may be).
      (b) List of Persons Who Are Complicit in Certain Human Rights 
  Abuses.--
              (1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
          the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the 
          appropriate congressional committees a list of persons who are 
          citizens of Iran that the President determines are complicit in 
          human rights abuses committed against citizens of Iran or their 
          family members on or after June 12, 2009, regardless of whether 
          such abuses occurred in Iran.
              (2) Updates of list.--Not later than 180 days after the 
          date of the enactment of this Act, and every 90 days 
          thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate 
          congressional committees an updated list under paragraph (1).
              (3) Public availability.--The list required by paragraph 
          (1) shall be made available to the public and posted on the 
          websites of the Department of the Treasury and the Department 
          of State.
              (4) Consideration of data from other countries and 
          nongovernmental organizations.--In preparing the list required 
          by paragraph (1), the President shall consider data already 
          obtained by other countries and nongovernmental organizations, 
          including organizations in Iran, that monitor the human rights 
          abuses of the Government of Iran.
      (c) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this 
  subsection are the following:
              (1) Visa ban.--Ineligibility for a visa to enter the United 
          States.
              (2) Financial sanctions.--Sanctions authorized under the 
          International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et 
          seq.), including blocking of property and restrictions or 
          prohibitions on financial transactions and the exportation and 
          importation of property.
      (d) Termination of Sanctions.--The provisions of this section shall 
  cease to have force and effect beginning 90 days after the date on 
  which the President determines and certifies to the appropriate 
  congressional committees that--
              (1) the persons sanctioned under this section have ceased 
          to be complicit in human rights abuses committed against 
          citizens of Iran or their family members on or after June 12, 
          2009, regardless of whether such abuses occurred in Iran; and
              (2) the Government of Iran has--
                      (A) unconditionally released all political 
                  prisoners, including the citizens of Iran detained in 
                  the aftermath of the June 12, 2009, political processes 
                  in Iran, and allowed for investigations of Iranian 
                  prisons by appropriate international human rights 
                  organizations;
                      (B) ceased its practices of violence, unlawful 
                  detention, torture, and abuse of citizens of Iran while 
                  engaging in peaceful political activity;
                      (C) conducted a transparent investigation into the 
                  killings, arrest, and abuse of peaceful political 
                  activists in Iran and prosecuted those responsible;
                      (D) legalized all political activity;
                      (E) made public commitments to organizing free and 
                  fair elections for a new government--
                              (i) to be held in a timely manner within a 
                          period not to exceed 180 days after the date on 
                          which the President makes the determination and 
                          certification to the appropriate congressional 
                          committees under this subsection;
                              (ii) with the participation of multiple 
                          independent political parties that have full 
                          access to the media on an equal basis, 
                          including (in the case of radio, television, or 
                          other telecommunications media) in terms of 
                          allotments of time for such access and the 
                          times of day such allotments are given; and
                              (iii) to be conducted under the supervision 
                          of internationally recognized observers;
                      (F) ceased any interference with broadcasts such as 
                  Voice of America and Radio Farda; and
                      (G) made public commitments to and is making 
                  demonstrable progress in--
                              (i) establishing an independent judiciary; 
                          and
                              (ii) respecting internationally recognized 
                          human rights and basic freedoms as recognized 
                          in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  
  SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.
  
      In this Act:
              (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
          ``appropriate congressional committees'' has the meaning given 
          that term in section 14(2) of the Iran Sanctions Act of 1996 
          (Public Law 104-172; 50 U.S.C. 1701 note).
              (2) Country reports on human rights practices.--The term 
          ``Country Reports on Human Rights Practices'' means the annual 
          reports required to be submitted by the Department of State to 
          Congress under sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign 
          Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d) and 2304(b)).
              (3) Government of iran.--The term ``Government of Iran'' 
          includes any agency or instrumentality of the Government of 
          Iran, including any entity that is controlled by the Government 
          of Iran.
              (4) Human rights abuses.--The term ``human rights abuses'' 
          means those forms of abuses detailed in the Department of 
          State's annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.
target: Iran Human Rights Sanctions Act - Directs the President to impose visa entry and financial sanctions on a person determined to be complicit in human rights abuses committed against Iranian citizens or their family members on or after June 12, 2009, regardless of whether such abuses occurred in Iran.
  
  Requires that: (1) the list of such persons required by this Act be made available to the public and posted on the Department of the Treasury and the Department of State websites; and (2) the President consider data obtained by other countries and nongovernmental organizations that monitor Iran's human rights abuses in preparing such list.
  
  Terminates sanctions upon presidential certification to Congress that: (1) the sanctioned persons have ceased complicity in human rights abuses; and (2) the government of Iran has released all political prisoners, ceased its killing and abuse of Iranian citizens engaging in peaceful political activity and prosecuted those responsible, committed itself to free elections and respect for human rights, and ceased broadcast interference.
feat_title: To impose sanctions on persons who are complicit in human rights abuses committed against citizens of Iran or their family members after the June 12, 2009, political processes in Iran, and for other purposes.