Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran’s Border Guard Command forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, killing a kolbar named Ako Rasouli on 28 May. The body of the 25-year-old kolbar was taken to Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in Baneh and has not yet been returned to his family. Eyewitnesses said that the kolbar was shot at close range without prior notice.

Iranian border guards have targeted a group of kolbars in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah province, killing a kolbar named Safar Sobhani and injuring several others on 30 April. Reportedly, the forces shot the kolbars at a close range and without prior warning. Sobhani was the father of two children and came from the Durisan village of Paveh, Kermanshah province. Although several other kolbars were injured…

Border Guard Command forces have wounded five more kolbars in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah province, western Iran, on 28 April. Forces in Mileh border area in Nowsud opened fire on a group of kolbars, injuring two kolbars named Namdar Hosseini and Amin Veisi. Separately, another kolbar named Habib Mohammadi was also shot and injured by border forces. Later during the day, border forces also ambushed…

At least nine kolbars have been injured in the past several days in the border areas of Nowsud in Kermanshah province, western Iran. The kolbars were either shot by forces of the Border Guard Command or fell from border heights as a result of being chased by border forces. On 21 April, border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars with shotguns, as a result…

At the same time as the intensification of the Iranian military forces targeting kolbars in the country’s western border areas, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, have threatened admins of Telegram news channels over publishing information on the shootings. In the past week, Iran’s Border Guard Command forces…

A Kurdish kolbar named Arash Nouri who was shot by Iranian border forces has lost his life yesterday in a hospital in Kermanshah, western Iran, due to the severity of his wounds. Forces of the Border Guard Command had severely injured the 30-year-old kolbar on the same day in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah province. He lost his life several hours after being hospitalised in…

A kolbar named Arash Nouri has been shot and severely wounded today by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah province. The health condition of the 30-year-old Kolbers was reported to be critical. The past week has been a bloody period for Kurdish kolbars in the country’s western border areas. During this period, border guards wounded at least 16 kolbars. Also yesterday, a kolbar…

Forces of Iran’s Border Guard Command have killed a kolbar and wounded nine others in the past two days in the country’s western border areas. Border forces shot and killed a kolbar named Soleiman Ebrahimzadeh in the Bitush border area of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 18 April. Ebrahimzadeh, 37, was the father of a child and came from the village of Banu Khalaf in Sardasht. Separately,…

Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars on 16 April in the Shushami border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah province, injuring a kolbar named Touraj Karimi. The wounded kolbar was taken to a hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah province, for treatment. Karimi, 37, comes from the village of Shamshir in Paveh. Last week, border forces had wounded at least six other kolbars in the Nowsud…