The Iranian Border Guards opened fire at a group of border porters, known as Kolbar, in Piranshahr which led to killing a Kolbar named Idris Weisi, a local source confirmed to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
The Iranian Border Guards stationed at the Milan outpost of Piranshahr opened fire at the group of Kolbars on 15 September.
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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...
One kolbar died of frostbite, while at least eight other kolbars were shot and injured by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, and Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, in recent days, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The body of Saeid Salousi, a 33-year-old father of one from Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan Province, who went missing in the mountainous area...