Iranian border guards injured two kolbars in the border areas of Piranshahr and Sarvabad in north-west Iran on 18 May. In recent days, border guards also raided the barns of a number of villagers in the Hengeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, and took some pack animals to the border areas and shot them. On 18 May, border guards opened fire on a group…
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Two kolbars have been injured in the western border areas of Iran over the past two days. Iranian border guards shot and injured Kolbar Akam Mohammadzadeh, 27, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 11 May. In addition, Zakaria Abdi, a kolbar from Salas-e Babajani, was injured on 10 May after falling from a border height in Nowsud, Kermanshah province. According to statistics…
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Iranian border forces shot dead Kurdish tradesman Yaghoub Abbasi in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 18 April, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Forces of the Border Guard Command opened fire on a group of tradesmen at the Alut border region in Baneh, severely injuring Abbasi. The civilian lost his life after his transfer to a medical centre in Orumiyeh, West…
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Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of tradesmen in the Gadar area of Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province, on 2 April, killing civilian Eynollah Ghadernezhad. Another civilian identified as Mohammad Latif Khaledi, 51, was shot several times and severely wounded. The border forces targeted the tradesmen without prior warning and from close range, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Two other civilians, Mohammad Sedigh…
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Mersad Darvishi, a 19-year-old kolbar who was severely injured yesterday along with five other kolbars in a car accident in the Shwankareh mountain pass in Ravansar, Kermanshah province, passed away today due to the severity of his injuries at Kermanshah’s Taleghani Hospital. The other five kolbars injured in the car accident are Zakaria Ahmadi, Salah Rahmani, Zakaria Mohammadi, Makvan (last name unknown) and Vahab (last…
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A kolbar lost his life and four other kolbars were injured in a car accident on 19 February in the border region of Ravansar, Kermanshah province, western Iran. On the evening of 19 February, a car carrying kolbars crashed on its way to the Shwankareh mountain pass in the border areas of Ravansar, as a result of which kolbar Saman Yaghoubi lost his life and…
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Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border region of Nowsud in Kermanshah province on 15 February, injuring a kolbar identified as Nemat Azizi. The 45-year-old kolbar, who was injured in the leg, was taken to a hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah province, for treatment.
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Iranian border forces shot dead kolbar Hossein Mohammadi in the border region of Nowkan in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 10 February. Mohammadi, 50, was a father of two who came from the city of Rabat, West Azerbaijan province.
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Iranian forces have killed a kolbar and a tradesman in the border areas of Baneh and Piranshahr in the past few days. The border guards in the Hengeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, targeted a group of kolbars on 2 October, killing a 28-year-old man identified as Saman Zarei. Three days earlier, on the evening of 29 September, a group of Kurdish tradesmen who…
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The Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in August 2023.
Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network’s (KHRN) recent investigations have revealed numerous cases of human rights violations against Kurdish civilians and activists from Iran in August 2023.
Our Documentation and Statistics Centre has compiled a comprehensive report on the various violations perpetrated against these individuals, which we present in this monthly report.
Executions
According to these findings, Iran executed at least 13 prisoners over the past month in Sanandaj, Saqqez, Khorramabad, Karaj, Hamadan, and Dezful.
While three prisoners were executed on charges of “premeditated murder”, 10 were executed for drug-related offences.
These are the executions of which the KHRN has been informed by its sources. However, the number of those executed is likely to be higher.
Kolbars and tradesmen
In August, at least four kolbars were killed and 16 were injured in the country’s western border areas.
Of these, 18 were shot by Iranian border guards and one was killed after he was hit by a military vehicle of the border forces.
In addition, one kolbar was injured after being shot by Iraqi border forces in the Choman border of Baneh on 7 August.
Killings of civilians
On 17 August, a Kurdish soldier from Maku, West Azerbaijan Province, was shot dead at a military base in Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province.
Work accidents
Over the past month, at least six workers lost their lives in work accidents in Qasr-e Shirin, Tabriz, Saqqez, Maku, Javanrud and Ilam.
Detentions and arrests
Throughout August, Iranian forces arrested at least 60 civilians, including activists, journalists, Kurdish Sunni clerics and two children.
Two of these civilians were detained to serve prison sentences in Ilam and Naqadeh.
Prison sentences
Over the past month, Iranian courts sentenced at least 10 people to prison terms ranging from six months to a total of 16 and a half years.
Half of these sentences were handed down by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province.