A Kurdish Kolber (Border Couriers) from Mariwan stepped on a landmine that was left from the Iran-Iraq war in this area. According to the information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, a Kurdish Kolber, Anoushirvan Rezaei from Hilzawa Village of Mariwan wounded in a landmine explosion in the Darwaran, a border region of Mariwan, on Saturday, June 17, 2017. He is hospitalised in Mariwan and…
Read moreA Kurdish Kolber was shot, killed by the direct shoot of Iran’s military forces in the border region Sardasht, yesterday. On Wednesday, 15 June a group of Kolber (border couriers) was shot by Iran’s border forces in the Betush area in the outskirts of Sardasht and a kolber named Sirwan Azizi from Doltanchak village of Sardasht killed on the spot, a local source told Human…
Read moreMany Kurdish Kolbers (Cross-border Couriers) have been killed and injured by direct shot of Iranian border guards, previously. But in a new trick, the border guards at Nowsoud Border, throwing Stones at Kurdish Kolbers. In the evening of Sunday 28 May, a number of Kolbers, while carrying goods near the border, have been targeted with stones in “Kooh Soni” city functions Nowsoud, an informed sources…
Read moreOver the past two weeks, two Kulbars were killed and 25 others were injured when a car and a minibus carrying Kulbars overturned in the border region of Marivan. According to Human Rights Network Kurdistan, On Sunday 24 May, around 15, on the “Band Dezli”road, in the Central District of Sarvabad County, Kurdistan Province, Iran, a car (Peykan), which was carrying Kulbars, have overturned and…
Read moreOn Wednesday, February 22, 2017 Khalid Ahmadian, a young Kolber has lost his eyes due to direct shooting of the Iranian border guards without a warning shot in Delawaran’s Village (in the borders of Piranshahr West Azarbaijan Province in northwest Iran). The doctor did enucleated on one of his eyes and he has lost the sight of the other eyes. Khalid Ahmadian, was born in 1989…
Read moreA young Kulbar from Rabt, Sardasht hospitalised in Tabriz hospital for over a month, died due to the severity of his injuries on Thursday, 27 April. He was shot and injured by Iran military forces. As a result of gunfire, opened by the Revolutionary guard another young Kulbar was injured in Baneh border Choman, a village in the Bowalhasan Rural District, Namshir District, Kurdistan…
Read moreThe Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) releases the second issue of its Annual Report on human rights violations and state-sponsored violence against Kurdish Kolber workers and shopkeepers in Iran. Click here for download full report as PDF This report is intended to detail for public opinion, international human rights and NGOs the fate of some of the most forgotten developments in Iran’s Kurdish society. We in the…
Read moreThe Iranian authorities have summoned and intimidated 70-year-old Kurdish Kolber worker Khazer Askarzadeh who just recently spoke to BBC Farsi journalists on the harsh working conditions of Kolber work in the border areas. The Intelligence Agency of Piranshahr called him to visit their branch and intelligence officers had met him and threatened him with revoking his work permit licence. “After the BBC TV report…
Read moreA gathering of solidarity with Kurdish Kolber workers was cancelled in Mariwan because of the presence of huge Iranian police forces. A few days ago in Mariwan, a group of Kurdish activists planned to gather outside the residence of the governor of the city to protest against the never-ending killings of Kurdish Kolber workers by the security forces. But on the day of the planned protest…
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