Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Two kolbars were injured in a landmine explosion in the Bolfat mountainous border area of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, on 26 March. Raouf Ahmadi, 39, from Zuran village in Sardasht, and Jabbar Ahmadzadeh, 28, from Kaneh Mashkeh village in Sardasht, were injured in the incident. Ahmadi reportedly suffered a leg amputation. Both were taken to medical facilities in Sardasht for treatment.

A 15-year-old child kolbar died of frostbite, while three other kolbars, including a 16-year-old child, were shot dead by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces on 24 March. Hastiyar Abdolkarimi, a 15-year-old kolbar from Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province, died of frostbite on 24 March in the Mishaw border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Residents of the border area discovered the...

Iranian border guards fatally shot 22-year-old Soran Abdi, a kolbar, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 24 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Abdi was first injured when border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars at close range and without warning, and died of his wounds on the way to hospital due to the...

Kolbars Ata Hosseini and Mohammad Ganjeh lost their lives in recent days after they were shot by Iranian border guards in separate incidents in Kermanshah and West Azerbaijan Provinces. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned Hosseini, a 32-year-old father of one child from the village of Balehbezan in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, was seriously wounded by border guard's gunfire in the border area of...