A Kurdish Border Porter –known as Kolbar- “Arsalan Natoush” was injured after being shot by border guards in the Jeremy border area of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province, On Monday, June 22, 2020 and he was taken to the city’s central prison, informed sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network.
The Kolbar, from the village of Zanglan in the Targor region of Orumiyeh, was shot in the leg and he gis currently being treated at the prison’s medical clinic.
He was not carrying goods at the time of his arrest and has been charged with “illegal crossing of the border”.
According to statistics compiled by KHRN, in June this year, at least seven border porters and Businessmen named Qader Yadzar, Arsalan Ahmadi, Mohsen Darvishzadeh, Ebrahim Jordanizaj and Sajad Dalaei Milan, Omar Moslehati Fard, Farhad Kachlanlu have been killed by Iranian and Turkish troops in Border areas of West Azerbaijan province.
