Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Sardab border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 21 April, killing kolbar Shwana Ahmadpour. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border guards targeted the group of kolbars at close range and without warning. Two other kolbars were reportedly injured in the shooting and have been taken to a medical facility...

Seyvan Dast-Afkan, a 31-year-old kolbar, was fatally shot by Iranian border guards on 17 April at the Tateh Pass in the Hawraman region of Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the incident occurred when Dast-Afkan and a group of kolbars were targeted by border guards at close range and without warning. Dast-Afkan was a father of one and was from...

Two kolbars were killed by gunfire from Iranian border guards in separate incidents in the border areas of Bitush in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, and Bastam in Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, on 13 April. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that a group of kolbars in the mountainous areas of Bitush village in Sardasht were targeted by border guards, resulting in the death of...

Kolbar Fardin Veysi was severely injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 6 April. Veysi was among a group of kolbars who were shot by border guards with pellet guns at close range and without warning, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. He sustained serious injuries to his abdomen and hand from the...

Two kolbars died and four others were injured as a result of falls from the mountainous border areas in the Hawraman region of Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province, and Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, while transporting goods on 28 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that five of the kolbars fell from the Tateh border heights in Hawraman, where kolbar Shoresh Shokri lost his life...