Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Three kolbars have gone missing due to heavy snowfall and blizzard in the Binar border heights of Orumiyeh, in Iran’s northwestern West Azerbaijan province, on 13 January. The names of the kolbars, who come from the village of Bavan in Orumiyeh, are Barzan Mahini, Asad Seydani-Fard, and Bahloul Seydani-Fard. The search for saving them began in the evening of the same day after their…

Iranian Border Guard Command forces have killed a young kolbar and injured two in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 30 November. Forces at Zali military outpost in Baneh’s border village of Chuman opened fire on a group of kolbars, killing Adel Alipour, 22, and injuring Yasin Aminpour. Separately, border forces in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh shot and injured a 33-year-old…

Iranian Border Guard Command forces have shot and injured five Kurdish kolbars in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province and Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, on 25 November. The border forces stationed in the Nowsud border areas opened fire on a group of kolbars using hunting rifles. They injured two brothers, Pouria Veysi and Faryad Veysi, from Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province. In the evening of…

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 opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Dopazeh border area of Sardasht in West Azerbaijan province on 8 November, injuring a kolbar named Karim Khandedar. Border forces shot the kolbar from a close range and without prior warning. Khandedar was from the Mir Sheykh Heydar village of Sardasht. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), in October, Iranian…

Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars and killed a young man named Mohammad Khodaei near the Kani Seif village of Baneh, Kurdistan province, at 2100 local time on 4 November. The forces shot the kolbar from a close range without prior warning, hitting him in the head and leg. The kolbar’s body was taken to the morgue of Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital…

Two kolbars named Jamal Mohammadi and Saman Mahmoudi lost their lives in a road accident on 17 October, near the Kileh village of Baneh in Kurdistan Province. Three other kolbars were injured during the accident. Reportedly, the vehicle carrying the group of kolbars overturned due to a collision with another car. The injured kolbars were taken to the Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in Baneh. Kolbar deaths and injuries in…

Iranian border guards have opened fire on and killed a young kolbar named Zhiyan Alipour in the Alan border area in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, at 23:00 local time on 14 October. Border forces shot the kolbar at a close range without prior notice. His body was transferred to the forensic medicine department in Sardasht and has not yet been returned to his family. Zhiyan Alipour, 32,…

Iranian border guards chased a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province on 27 September, causing kolbars Sarkawt Karami and Masoud (last name unknown) to fall from mountain heights. The two injured kolbars from Javanrud were transferred to medical centres in Paveh, Kermanshah province. In August, military forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran killed at least one kolbar. They also wounded…