Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Turkish army has killed two Kurdish kolbars named Sozdar Ahmadi and Alishan Ahmadi in the border area between Turkey and Iran’s Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, on 20 September. The kolbars lost their lives after the Turkish army attacked a group of kolbars using unmanned aerial vehicles. The attack also left some kolbars injured. Reportedly, Turkish armed forces transported the bodies of the two killed kolbars…

Iranian border forces targeted a group of kolbars in the Dulehbi border area of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 19 September, and killed a kolbar named Omid Mohammadzadeh. The kolbar’s body was taken to the forensic medicine department in Sardasht and has not yet been returned to his family. Mohammadzadeh, 39, was the father of three children and a resident of Rabat, West Azerbaijan province. He is…

Iranian border guard forces have opened fire today on a group of kolbars in the Maran border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, killing a kolbar named Mohammad Amin Ghaderi. Mohammad Amin Ghaderi was 36 years old and the father of one child. The kolbars body has been transferred to the department of forensic medicine in Baneh. Ghaderi is the second kolbar that border forces murdered in the…

Iranian border guards have killed a 32-year-old kolbar named Rasoul Karimi after opening fire on a group of kolbars in the Kani Seyf border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province on 11 September. Also, on 8 September, border forces killed a civilian named Sirwan Golzari in the border area of Qolqoleh, in Marivan, Kurdistan province. In August, military forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran killed at…

Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars on 31 August in the border area of Hangeh-ye Zhal in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, injuring kolbars Bahman Karimpanah and Arman Rasouli. The two kolbars were taken to Salah al-Din Ayubi Hospital in Baneh for treatment. In the past two weeks, a convoy of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been stationed…

Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 17 August, injuring two kolbars named Khalil Khaledi and Fereydoun Mohammadzadeh. The border forces shot at the group at a close range, and without prior warning, sources told the KHRN. The two kolbars were taken to Salah al-Din Ayubi Hospital in Baneh for treatment.

Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars and injured Rasoul Molani in the Barvish Kani border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 28 July. The kolbar was shot in the left leg and taken to Salah al-Din Ayubi Hospital in Baneh for treatment. Border guards had also targeted a group of kolbars from a near distance and without prior warning on 26…

Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Kurdistan province on 26 July, killing kolbar Fereydoun Nasseri and injuring five other kolbars. Border forces targeted the kolbars from a near distance, and without prior warning, sources told the KHRN. Fereydoun Nasseri was from Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, and the father of one child. The KHRN has not…

Iranian border regiment has tortured and severely beaten five Kurdish kolbars with sticks and buttstocks near Issa Gulik village of Chaldoran in the border areas of West Azerbaijan province on the morning of 19 July. A source in Chaldoran told the KHRN that the border regiment of Saqiz outpost under the command of a person named Sadeghzadeh stopped kolbars Jamal Hassanpour, Baran Hassanpour, Hossein Firouzi,…