Actually, targeting and sanctioning human rights violators not only is a deterrent for the violators, but also boosts the morale of those fighting on the ground. One of the tricks of the totalitarian system is to make activists and dissidents feel completely isolated from within and from without.
When a government like the Canadian government, which is hosting so many Iranian migrants, targets human rights violators, then this, even psychologically, boosts the morale of others. Really the new head of the judiciary should be the target of individual sanctions for gross human rights violations. I am wondering if it's possible even to consider the judiciary as an institution to be targeted as a major systemic violator of human rights. That is the question.