Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards have shot and wounded at least six kolbars in the past few days in the Nowsud border areas of Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces in northwestern Iran. On 12 April, border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in Nowsud border areas in Kermanshah province, injuring at least four. These were the 30-year-old Arman Mostafazadeh, Salam Azami from Shaho district of Paveh in…

Iranian military forces stationed in the border area of the village of Hani Garmaleh in Paveh, Kermanshah province, opened fire on a group of kolbars on 6 April, severely wounding a young kolbar from the village. Reportedly, the incident raised tension between the protesting villagers and the border guards and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for several hours. Many police and IRGC forces entered the…

Iranian border forces have opened fire today on a group of kolbars in Nowsud border areas in Kermanshah province, western Iran, injuring three kolbars. Dozens of shots fired from border guards’ shotguns have hit the kolbars’ bodies. Reportedly, one of the wounded kolbars was a person named Ako Khoda-Moradifar, a resident of Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province. The identities of the other two kolbars are not…

Iranian border forces have opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province, western Iran, wounding a 25-year-old kolbar named Arman Farahmand. According to witnesses, the kolbar was targeted with a shotgun and more than ten shots hit his hands, head, back, and shoulders. The injured kolbar has been taken to hospital for treatment.

Iranian border forces have opened fire on a group of kolbars in Siranband border areas in Baneh, Kurdistan province, and killed a young kolbar named Rostam Khezri on 25 March. Some kolbars present in the area took Khezri’s body to one of the medical centres in Sulaimaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Khezri, 25, comes from Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province. He had begun working as a…

Iranian border forces have shot and injured three kolbars in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province, western Iran, on 8 March. The forces of the Nowsud Border Regiment opened fire on a convoy of kolbars in the evening of 8 March, wounding kolbars Pouria Abdolrahmaninezhad, Mansour Abdi, and Pezhman Abdi. These individuals, who come from Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province, have been working as kolbars…

A Kurdish tradesman named Saadi Piran was shot and killed by Iranian police in the border area of Siranband in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 25 February. “The police targeted the Kurdish tradesman’s car at the Baghiyatollah intersection in the border area of Siranband in Baneh, without prior warning”, said a source in an interview with the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) The source added that the…

Explosions of landmines in Iran’s northwestern border areas have injured four young kolbars in the late hours of 21 February. Kolbars Kianoush Raufi, 24, Foad Bitoushi, and Amanj (last name unknown) were injured on their way to the border areas of Hangeh-ye Zhal in Baneh, Kurdistan province. The three kolbars were taken to one of the surrounding villages with the help of a group of kolbars…

Three kolbars have lost their lives in the past few days in Paveh, in Kermanshah province, and Sardasht, in West Azerbaijan province, in northwestern Iran. During this period, two other kolbars have been wounded by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Paveh and Baneh, Kurdistan province. On 14 February, a farmer named Azad Esmaeilpour fell from mountain heights in the border areas of Alvatan…