Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Aziz Morad Shams, a worker who was injured in the explosion of the remnants of the Iran-Iraq war in Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah province, on 8 May, died today in Kermanshah's Taleghani Hospital due to the severity of his injuries. Shams, 43, who worked as a guard at the Changaran Dam in the Ezgeleh district of Salas-e Babajani, was severely injured in the stomach and face...

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,...

Civilian Abdol-Hossein Ghadimi died as a result of a landmine explosion in the Mimak border area of Ilam, western Iran, on 20 February. The 60-year-old civilian, who comes from the village of Kolkol-e Asemanabad in Ilam province, was engaged in animal husbandry.

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...