Two kolbars were injured in a landmine explosion in the Bolfat mountainous border area of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, on 26 March. Raouf Ahmadi, 39, from Zuran village in Sardasht, and Jabbar Ahmadzadeh, 28, from Kaneh Mashkeh village in Sardasht, were injured in the incident. Ahmadi reportedly suffered a leg amputation. Both were taken to medical facilities in Sardasht for treatment.
Read moreA 15-year-old child kolbar died of frostbite, while three other kolbars, including a 16-year-old child, were shot dead by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces on 24 March. Hastiyar Abdolkarimi, a 15-year-old kolbar from Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province, died of frostbite on 24 March in the Mishaw border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Residents of the border area discovered the…
Read moreIranian border guards fatally shot 22-year-old Soran Abdi, a kolbar, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 24 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Abdi was first injured when border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars at close range and without warning, and died of his wounds on the way to hospital due to the…
Read morePeyman Ahmadi, a 35-year-old kolbar from Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, was shot and killed by Iranian border guards in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah Province on 23 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ahmadi was fatally shot at close range and without warning. Ahmadi’s body has been taken to a medical facility in Nowsud, but has not yet been released to…
Read moreKolbars Ata Hosseini and Mohammad Ganjeh lost their lives in recent days after they were shot by Iranian border guards in separate incidents in Kermanshah and West Azerbaijan Provinces. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned Hosseini, a 32-year-old father of one child from the village of Balehbezan in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, was seriously wounded by border guard’s gunfire in the border area of…
Read moreKolbar Zanyar Sayahi was injured by shotgun fire from Iranian border guards while in custody at the Hangeh-ye Zhal border base in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 6 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Mostafa Moradi, an official at the Hangeh-ye Zhal border base, and border guards arrested and beat Sayahi on the evening of 6 March. Before releasing him, they forced him…
Read moreA landmine explosion in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah Province injured two kolbars, Mohammad Mirani and Aboubakr Rostamian, in the early hours of 7 March. Additionally, Ata Hosseini, a 32-year-old kolbar from Paveh, Kermanshah Province, was wounded in the chest by Iranian border guards’ gunfire, while Afshin Nazari, from Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah Province, was injured in the face after being detained and beaten by…
Read moreIranian border guards fatally shot Ali Zarghami, a 52-year-old kolbar, in the border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, in the early hours of 3 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that at 02:00 local time on 3 March, the border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Mishiaw border area of the Sarshiv district of Saqqez without warning and…
Read moreA group of kolbars were fired upon by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 26 February, resulting in the death of Jafar Faraji, a 40-year-old kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border guards opened fire on the kolbars without warning and at close range. The body of Faraji, a 40-year-old father…
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