Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border forces killed a kolbar and injured another after opening fire on a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah province on 25 September. Reportedly, the kolbars identified as Mokhtar Mir-Veysi and Ahmad Yousefi were targeted from a close range and without prior warning. Mir-Veysi, who was a father of two and came from Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province, died due to…

Iranian border guards killed two kolbars identified as Karim Asemani and Bahaoddin Ahmadpour in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan province, in the past two days. Asemani was shot and killed at the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh on 21 September. The 47-year-old kolbar was the father of six children and came from the Najneh-ye Olya village in Baneh. On 20 September, Border Guard forces targeted…

As part of Iran’s systematic targeting of kolbars, border guards killed a man and injured two others today after opening fire on a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province, western Iran. The border forces shot at the kolbars from a close range and without prior warning, killing a kolbar identified as Esmaeil Abdi and wounding two others named Mokhtar Fattahi…

Iran’s Border Guard Command forces wounded at least three kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 12 September. Border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars from close range without prior warning, as a result of which three kolbars named Taleb Ghaffari, 30; Khalegh Hamzehpour, 28; and Hiva Ahmadi, were injured. The kolbars were transferred to Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in…

Iranian border forces shot and wounded a young kolbar named Hiva Aziznejat, who is also a member of Iran’s national youth karate team, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 13 September. The 19 years old kolbar was transferred to Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in Baneh. Aziznejat had won the gold medal in the national competitions of the men’s Kumite -55kg for youth…

Iranian border forces targeted a group of kolbars, killing one and injuring another in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 11 September. Border guards in Hangeh-ye Zhal border area killed a 40 years old kolbar identified as Rizgar Mohammadzadeh. Mohammadzadeh was the father of two and came from the village of Darvian-e Olya in Saqqez, Kurdistan province. Also, in the evening hours, another kolbar from…

Iran’s Border Guard Command forces have shot and wounded at least nine kolbars in the country’s western borders in the past few days. On 4 September, border forces targeted kolbars in three areas in Nowsud, Kermanshah province, injuring four kolbars identified as Eghbal Alizadeh, Hemmat Abdi, Ali Ahmadi and Parviz Moradi. On 2 September, border guards opened fire on kolbars in two areas in Baneh, Kurdistan…

In continuation of the systematic killing of kolbars, Iranian border forces have killed a man and injured two others in the past few days in the border areas of Baneh in Kurdistan province. On 31 August, border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of Marvi in Baneh and killed a 23-year-old kolbar named Saleh Rashidzadeh, who comes from Sardasht…

A severely injured kolbar identified as Araz Mohammadpour died on 28 August after being hospitalised for five days in the Kowsar Hospital of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province. Iranian border forces shot the kolbar in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 23 August. Mohammadpour, 32, was the father of two children and came from Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province. According to the statistics collected by the Kurdistan Human…