Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A landmine explosion severely injured an employee of Iran's demining department in the border areas of Qasr-e-Shirin, Kermanshah province, on 10 April. The civilian, whose identity is not known yet, suffered severe injuries on his hands and face. He was transferred to a medical centre in Kermanshah for treatment. Every year, dozens of civilians in Iran's border areas, especially in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah,...

A landmine blast in Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, severely injured a kolbar identified as Mahmoud Osmani Jang-e Sar on 18 August. The kolbar who comes from the Jang-e Sar village of Salmas, West Azerbaijan province, has lost one of his legs and his both eyes. Osmani's family is not able to transfer him to medical centres in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province, due...

A child kolbar identified as Amanj Azarpour was severely injured by a landmine explosion in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 17 August. The 17-year-old kolbar was reportedly taken to a medical centre in Tehran due to the severity of his injuries. Azarpour comes from Saheb in Kurdistan province, northwestern Iran.

A young kolbar named Arvin Showkati has been injured today in a landmine explosion in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province. The 18-year-old kolbar has been taken to Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in Baneh for treatment. Showkati is a resident of Saqqez in Kurdistan province.

Iranian border guards shot and injured two Kurdish civilians in the border areas of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 29 October. Separately, the explosion of a landmine in the region on 28 October caused injury to another civilian. Iranian border forces shot a shepherd named Azad in the leg and his wife Shler in the arm while grazing livestock close to a military outpost near the...

Two Kurdish civilians have been injured in recent days in separate landmine explosions in Bisotun, Kermanshah province, and the village of Jandaran in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province. Reportedly, a shepherd was injured in the right leg this morning due to a landmine explosion in an abandoned military base in the Jandaran village of Khalifan district, Mahabad. In an interview with Haje news agency, Khalifan district governor...

The explosion of a landmine left over from the Iran-Iraq war in a military base in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province has injured Rasoul Rahmani, a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), on 14 October. The IRGC member was severely injured in the left leg. He was transferred to a medical centre in Kermanshah for treatment. Every year, dozens of civilians in the...

Civilian Sherko Mohammadpour has lost one of his feet in a landmine explosion near the village of Beweran in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 25 May, sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). After the incident, he was taken to a hospital in Sardasht. The civilian is said to have stepped on a landmine left over from the Iran-Iraq war while grazing livestock. On 12 May,...

A 45-year-old farmer from the village of Hasanabad in Eslamabad-e Gharb, Kermanshah province, has been severely injured due to the explosion of a landmine during work in the field in midday, on 19 May. “Hasanabad police officers have found out in their investigation that the hands and feet of a 45-year-old man were injured in the explosion of a landmine - left over from the...