Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran’s Border Guard Command forces have shot and wounded at least nine kolbars in the country’s western borders in the past few days. On 4 September, border forces targeted kolbars in three areas in Nowsud, Kermanshah province, injuring four kolbars identified as Eghbal Alizadeh, Hemmat Abdi, Ali Ahmadi and Parviz Moradi. On 2 September, border guards opened fire on kolbars in two areas in Baneh, Kurdistan…

In continuation of the systematic killing of kolbars, Iranian border forces have killed a man and injured two others in the past few days in the border areas of Baneh in Kurdistan province. On 31 August, border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of Marvi in Baneh and killed a 23-year-old kolbar named Saleh Rashidzadeh, who comes from Sardasht…

A severely injured kolbar identified as Araz Mohammadpour died on 28 August after being hospitalised for five days in the Kowsar Hospital of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Iranian border forces shot the kolbar in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 23 August. Mohammadpour, 32, was the father of two children and came from Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province. According to the statistics collected by the Kurdistan Human…

Iranian border forces killed a kolbar identified as Rebwar Rashidi when they targeted a group of kolbars in the border area of Barvish Kani in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 26 August. “Rashidi was shot at from close range by the forces of the Hojreh border post while returning from the border without prior warning”, said a friend of the kolbar in an interview with the…

A kolbar identified as Rahim Mohammadi lost his life after Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh in Kurdistan province on 19 August. Border forces opened fire at close range and without prior notice, killing the kolbar with a bullet to his heart. Mohammadi, 37, was the father of two and came from the Hurazeh…

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…

Iranian border guard forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of Hangeh-ye Zhal in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 15 August and injured at least four kolbars. The forces targeted the kolbars using shotguns from a close range and without prior warning. The identities of these kolbars have been reported as Saman Mohammadzadeh, 29-year-old from Baneh, Arsalan Rahmani from Saqqez, Ali Abkar…

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of Sheykh Salleh in Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah province, killing a 23-year-old kolbar named Mohammad Naderi. An informed source in Salas-e Babajani spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said the group of kolbars was targeted from a close distance, adding that they were not carrying…

Iranian border guards injured a kolbar named Abdollah Hajari using shotguns in the border area of Hengeh-ye Zhal in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 10 August. The shots fired by the border forces hit the 25-year-old kolbar in the face. Border forces’ targeting of kolbars has increased since last week after the commander of the Iranian border guards forces visited the Baneh border areas and threatened to…