Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

A landmine explosion in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah Province injured two kolbars, Mohammad Mirani and Aboubakr Rostamian, in the early hours of 7 March. Additionally, Ata Hosseini, a 32-year-old kolbar from Paveh, Kermanshah Province, was wounded in the chest by Iranian border guards' gunfire, while Afshin Nazari, from Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah Province, was injured in the face after being detained and beaten by...

Iranian border guards fatally shot Ali Zarghami, a 52-year-old kolbar, in the border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, in the early hours of 3 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that at 02:00 local time on 3 March, the border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Mishiaw border area of the Sarshiv district of Saqqez without warning and...

Iranian border guards targeted a group of kolbars in the Sardab border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 11 February, killing a 26-year-old kolbar identified as Seyvan Sahihi from the village of Beleh Keh in Baneh. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border forces opened fire on the kolbars at close range and without prior warning. Sahihi's body was taken to Salahuddin...

Iranian border guards today detained two kolbars, identified as Yousef and Farzad, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, and after interrogating them for about half an hour, shot them with shotguns, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The two kolbars from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, were shot in the legs from just a few metres away and left injured. Yousef,...

Farid Roubina, a young kolbar, died of frostbite in the freezing temperatures in the border region of Hanjiran in Marivan, Kurdistan province, on the evening of 6 February. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Roubina went missing in the heavy snowfall on the kolbar route in the Hanjiran border area, and after an extensive search by the local community, his lifeless body...

Iranian border forces targeted a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 4 February, wounding at least four kolbars. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the kolbars, identified as Ali Aboubakri, 30, Khalegh Aboubakri, 37, Nasser Bari, 43, and Hemin (surname and age unknown), were subjected to close-range shotgun fire by the Iranian border guards...

Iranian border guards opened fire at close range on a group of kolbars without warning in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, on 2 February, wounding kolbar Kouhsar Rostamnezhad. Kouhsar Rostamnezhad, from the village of Shamshir in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, was seriously wounded in the head and taken to Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, where doctors recommended further treatment at a medical centre...

Mardin Amini, a 14-year-old child kolbar from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, was injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 30 January. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Amini was shot in the leg when a group of kolbars in Hangeh-ye Zhal came under close fire from Iranian border guards without warning. The...