Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars on 6 July, injuring a kolbar named Mohammad Bahrami in the Hangeh-ye Zhal region in Kurdistan province. The forces shot the kolbar from a close range. He was taken to Salah al-Din Ayubi Hospital in Baneh, sources said. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in the past two weeks, border...

Iranian border guards have killed a kolbar named Keyvan Hagh-Moradi and injured another named Sirwan Takhani. They have opened fire on a group of kolbars in Tah Tah mountain pass in the Hawraman region of Kurdistan province on 30 June. The severely injured Takhani was taken to a medical centre. Reportedly, the forensic medicine department of Marivan has not yet returned the body of the killed...

Iranian border guards have opened fire on and killed a kolbar named Vahed Mohammadpour on 26 June in the Dolabi region of Sardasht, in West Azerbaijan province. In the last 10 days alone, Iranian and Turkish border forces have killed five kolbars in Iran’s border areas with Turkey and Iraq. On the evening of 26 June, military forces of the Soura Gwezh outpost in Sardasht targeted...

Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have killed a kolbar named Fahmin Rostamzadeh and injured another on 23 June in the Tah Tah mountain pass in Hawraman region in Sarvabad, Kurdistan province. The IRGC forces opened fire on a group of kolbars at 04:00 local time as a result of which the two kolbars were shot, a source in Hawraman told the Kurdistan...

Turkish border forces have opened fire on and killed a young kolbar named Aziz Mohammadzadeh this morning in the border areas of Chaldoran in West Azerbaijan province. A source in the city of Chaldoran confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Turkish border forces “targeted a group of kolbars” and killed Mohammadzadeh, said the source. The kolbar’s body was transferred to the city of...

Forces of the Hangeh-ye Zhal military outpost in Baneh, Kurdistan province, have opened fire on a group of kolbars and killed a kolbar named Saadoun Ahmadi in the morning of 20 June. A source in Baneh told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the border forces shot the kolbars “from a close range” and “without any warning”. The kolbar’s body was taken to the department...

Kolbar Basir Ahmadzadeh, who was shot by the Nowsud border regiment on 14 June, has lost his life five days later due to the severity of his injuries. Iranian border guards had opened fire on a group of kolbars on 14 June in Nowsud border areas in Kermanshah, injuring Basir Ahmadzadeh and his brother Bashir Ahmadzadeh. Basir Ahmadzadeh, who comes from the village of Desheh in...

Iranian border regiment has opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Tah Tah mountain pass in Hawraman area on 6 June, as a result of which a 35-year-old kolbar from Marivan named Soran Qaderi has been wounded, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Meanwhile, an 18-year-old kolbar named Yousef Farjami from the village of Dim Qeshlaq in West Azerbaijan province has...

Iranian border guards have shot and killed a kolbar named Ghobad Rahmani in the ​​Naw Ghopi border area of Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah province on Wednesday night, 26 May. Speaking to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), a source close to the kolbar’s family said: “At 12 o’clock on Wednesday night, 26 May, a group of kolbars, who were not carrying any goods, were shot...