Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Two kolbars have been injured in the past two days in Hawraman border area in western Iran; one has been shot by border guards and the other has fallen from border heights. Sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that a kolbar named Yousef Malian, from Marivan, was injured after falling from a border height while carrying goods on his back in the border...

In the past few days, two Kurdish Border Porters –known as Kolbar- have been killed and five others wounded by direct shooting of Iranian border guards in the border areas of Chaldoran and Orumiyeh of West Azerbaijan and Nawsoud in Kermanshah, informed sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). "At 10 pm on June 25, 2020, a group of Kolbars from the village of Navar...

A Kurdish Border Porter –known as Kolbar- was killed and another one wounded in a shootout after being targeted by the Turkish troops in the border region of Qotur on the border between Khoy County, West Azerbaijan Province and Turkey. A reliable source in Qotur has informed the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that "At 10 pm, May 17, Turkish army forces fired directly at a group...

During the past four days, two Kurdish Border Porters –known as Kolbar- were killed and two others were wounded at the Khoy and Sardasht borders in the West Azarbaijan province by the direct shooting of the Islamic Republic of Iran's border guards. Another Kolbar also lost his life due to falling from the border heights of Baneh in Kurdistan province. "A Kolbar named "Kamran Molania" was shot...

Two Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar-  have been injured at the Ghotour border areas (Kutul) of Khoy as a result of being shot by Turkey’s military forces on January 26 and transferred by a Van to a hospital in Turkey, sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Informed sources in Ghotour have told KHRN that both Hussain Hadizadeh, 29, and Ali Hadizadeh,...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) learned that three Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar-  have been wounded in the Salmas, Piranshahr and Sardasht border areas as a result of being shot by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military forces during the past three days. According to reports received, border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the border areas...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) announced that 5 Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar- and tradesmen have been killed while 13 others have been injured by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military forces or due to natural disasters along the Kolbari routes during the past month. According to statistics, two Kolbars were targeted by military forces and died in the hospital due to the...

The Iranian border guards directly targeted a group of Kurdish border porters (known Kolbars) and tradesmen at Khoy-Sardasht border area where a Kolbar and a tradesman got injured, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Hamed Abed, a Kurdish tradesman from Qator of Khoy district, and Kurdish Kolbar Hiva Sadiqzadeh from Sardasht were targeted and wounded by the border guards in the border area of the...

Two Kurdish border couriers (known as Kolbar) were shot and injured by the Iranian border guards in Baneh and Piranshahr border areas. Yadegar Ismaili, a Kolbar, was shot injured in the border village of Zaleh on 9 December, a local source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Ismaili, from the village of Zaleh, is married and has two children behind. He is currently undergoing treatment at Salaheddine Ayobi...