Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): As a result of a series of direct shooting of Iranian border guards, a Kolbar was killed while two others were wounded. Moreover, three Kolbars from Sardasht and Piranshahr died of frostbite at the borderlands of Piranshahr last nigiht. KHRN has been informed that a group of Kolbars in the frontier elevations of the Kani Khoda of Piranshahr have suffered…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): On Tuesday night, April 12, 2019, a Kurdish civilian and an Afghan family of six people were targeted by the Iranian border guards near the village of Tavarreh of Khoy. As a result of this shooting, the Kurdish civilian and two members of the Afghan family – the mother and son aged 13- were killed while another child of…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kolbars from Baneh and Sardasht have been injured by shooting of Iranian border forces. KHRN has been informed that the border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran opened fire at the caravan of Kolbars in the border area of Genav of Sardasht on March 31, 2019. This incident resulted in a 30-year-old Kolbar, Raouf Soleimani being wounded in…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The border forces at Shooshme checkpoint in the city of Paveh targeted a group of Kolbars, which resulted in a Kolbar “Ibrahim Khoshnood” being wounded in his leg. Ibrahim Khoshnood, from the village of Hajij and resident of Paveh, has been taken to one of the medical centres of Kermanshah due to the severity of his injuries.

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 26-year-old Kolbar, Jabar Mahmoudi, was injured by direct shootings of the border forces. Meanwhile, another Kolbar- Aref Odaak from the village of Zhivar of Saravabad- passed away due to the cardiac arrest at the Nosoud border inside the Iraqi Kurdistan. According to data collected by KHRN, a Kolbar was killed and seven others were wounded by direct shootings of Iranian…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 29-year-old Kolbar, Shaker Pourkhaled from Dizaj Mirghoor village of Orumiyeh, died of frostbite at the village of Darman Abad in Sardasht on March 18. According to a Kolbar in Orumiyeh, a number of Kurdish citizens living in the border villages of Orumiyeh such as Oshnavyeh, Piranshahr and Sardasht have turned into Kolbari over the past few years due to…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Since late February, one Kolbar has been killed and at least six injured after being directly shot by Iranian border guards. During this time, three Kolbars, one of whom was 17 years old, have lost their life due to frost and falling from mountains. On the evening of March 16, 2019, Iranian border guards in the Nawsoud border targeted a…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 17-year-old Kolbar, Afshar Sayyadi Niaz choked with snow after falling of high mountains in Tata of Paweh. “Afshar Sayyadi Niaz, born in 2002 and a year 9 student at the Shahin high school of Marivan, had turned to kolbari [carrying goods across the border as a Kolbar] since summer due to his father’s unemployment and family financial situation”, one…

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Two Kolbars were wounded after being shot by Iranian border forces in Baneh and Sardasht. KHRN has been informed that a group of kolbars were shot at Hangeh Jale village of Baneh on February 20, As a result, a kolbar called Qarib Taji from Nannor of Baneh was injured on the foot. On the same day, another group of kolbars…