Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of Kurdish border porters known as Kolbars in the border areas of Somayeh Broadost, Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province on July 09. As a result, three Kolbars identified as Hekmat Ahmadi, Shamzin Ahmadi and Roshan Jahangir got injured, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).  The three Kolbars were taken to a hospital at the Kurdish town of Yoksekova...

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...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned from multiple and verified sources that two Kurdish Kolbar porters died and 12 others were injured in January 2020. One of the dead was killed by Iranian government forces and the other, a 55-year-old Kolbar worker, froze to death in adverse weather conditions. Government troops also shot and injured 11 Kolbar and Kurdish tradesmen. Another was injured  after he fell off from a mountainous...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): As a result of a series of direct shooting of Iranian border guards, a Kolbar was killed while two others were wounded. Moreover, three Kolbars from Sardasht and Piranshahr died of frostbite at the borderlands of Piranshahr last nigiht. KHRN has been informed that a group of Kolbars in the frontier elevations of the Kani Khoda of Piranshahr have suffered...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kolbars from Baneh and Sardasht have been injured by shooting of Iranian border forces. KHRN has been informed that the border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran opened fire at the caravan of Kolbars in the border area of Genav of Sardasht on March 31, 2019. This incident resulted in a 30-year-old Kolbar, Raouf Soleimani being wounded in...

Yesterday evening, a young Kolbar from Piranshahr died of frostbite in Piranshahr Heights. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that, on the evening of December 12, a young Kolbar, Zanyar Azizzadeh lost his life after losing his path in the darkness in the Alaneh district of Piranshahr. His dead body was found after a few hours by other Kolbars and the local people. Kolbars...

A 15-year-old Kolbar was injured as a result of the shooting of the Sardasht border troops toward a caravan of Kolbars on Saturday morning. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that on Saturday, November 17, the border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran opened fire at the group of Kolbars in the border area of Sardasht, which resulted in a 15-year-old...

Following the systematic killing of Kolbars and tradesmen in Kurdistan border, four people were killed and seven people were wounded by the shooting of the Iranian border guards over the last three weeks, Moreover, a Kolbar has suffered from spinal cord injury by a mine blast while and another Kolbar has been frozen in the border areas of Orumiyeh as a result of frostbite. According...

A Kolbar from Mahabad lost one leg due to a mine blast in the border region of Piranshahr. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that a young Kolbar called Hiwa Khezrpour from Mahabad, was severely injured in a mine blast during work in the Haji Omran district of Piranshahr on Monday,22 June, He lost one of his legs in this incident due to...