Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The body of Farhad Khosravi, a 14-year-old border porter –known Kolbars- missing from the night of 15 December, was found by the locals on 20 December, at the height of the Tatetateh Huraman range. https://www.facebook.com/KurdistanHRN/videos/819898831797256/?t=0 Thousands of civilians accompanied the body of the young teenager to the village of Ney, his birthplace. The civilians paid tributes to the Kolbars who lost their lives for earning a living. At the funeral, which…

On 9 May 2014 the Hamedan Law Enforcement Force shot Kurdish tradesman Arman Amami, a resident of Boane village in Kamyaran city, in the spine and now he has lost some of his movement abilities, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The 35-year-old man, undergoes in a difficult situation for he is relying on the philanthropists for paying the expenses of his…

Two Kurdish border couriers (known as Kolbar) were shot and injured by the Iranian border guards in Baneh and Piranshahr border areas. Yadegar Ismaili, a Kolbar, was shot injured in the border village of Zaleh on 9 December, a local source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Ismaili, from the village of Zaleh, is married and has two children behind. He is currently undergoing treatment at Salaheddine Ayobi…

The Iranian Border Guards shot dead tradesmen Nasser Moradpour and Semko Qadarnia in the border areas of Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) as they were returning to Iran’s border without carrying any goods, and the Guards “dumped the bodies of of the dead tradesmen into a river,” local soruces told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “The two tradesmen had left with a group of tradesmen on the border…

The Iranian checkpoints forces in Bengin Khan of Piranshahr opened fire at a group of Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar- and tradesmen crossing the border at the border highlands where one of the tradesmen was killed, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Kamran Bianak, from the village of Kohne Khaneh of Piranshar, was a 26- year old young man. According to the statistics compiled…

A Kurdish border porter –known as Kolbar- lost his life at the border area of Hange Jal in Baneh when the Iranian Border Guards opened fire at a group of Kolbars in the morning of 13 November, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) According to eyewitnesses, Taher Hosseini from the village of Sadbar in Baneh was shot from a close range “even though he…

A group of Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar- and tradesmen were shot dead near the Kani Zard village of Sardasht on 9 November, local media reported. According to the reports, two Kolbars from the Savan village of Sardasht, Siamand Mohammad Abdullah, 19, and Sirwan Hassan Abdullah, 25, were injured during the shooting. The two injured Kolbars were reportedly taken to the Shahidan Hospital in Qaladzeh, the Iraqi Kurdistan, for medical treatment. According to…

A Kurdish border porter -known as Kolbar- was injured in a mine explosion at the Shushami border crossing in Paveh district on 5 November, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Ashkan Fattahi was transferred to Ayatollah Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah due to suffering from serious injuries who lost 50% of his left leg ability. Fattahi had also been targeted by the Iranian border guards in the Nusud…

A Kurdish border porter –known as Kolbar- from Sardasht, who had been injured by the Iranian border guards on 12 October lost his life after a month of hospitalisation in Orumiyeh, a local source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Peyman Yousefi, 29-years Kurdish civilian from the village of Darman Abad in Sardasht, was married and had two children. Peyman Yousefi A group of Kolbars, who were moving towards the border from a…