WASHINGTON — The Biden administration imposed sanctions Wednesday on several Iranian officials and entities it said were linked to serious human rights abuses against women and girls. 

Since widespread anti-government protests erupted in Iran over the Sept. 16 death in morality police custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, the administration has issued 10 rounds of sanctions tied to the regime’s violent clampdown and online censorship of the protests. The latest sanctions, which came on International Women’s Day, were imposed in coordination with similar actions by the European Union, United Kingdom and Australia. 

On Wednesday the Treasury Department designated two Iranian prison officials, Ali Chaharmahali and Dariush Bakhshi, who it said were complicit in the rape, torture and mistreatment of inmates in their custody. 

During Chaharmahali’s tenure as warden of the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, female inmates were frequently threatened with rape, the department said in a news release. Under Dariush Bakhshi’s oversight, officials at the Orumiyeh Central Prison reportedly coerced female inmates into having sexual relations in exchange for better treatment.