Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian government troops have opened fire killing and wounding Kurdish Kolber workers and their horses in the Sardasht border area, according to local sources that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the most recent deadly shooting incidents. Iranian military forces opened fire wounding two Kurdish Kolber workers Abdullah Arjang and Ebrahim Abdi in the Alan borer area near the town of Sardasht…

Iranian forces have shot dead two Kurdish Kolber workers while another Kolber worker has been badly wounded at another shooting incident at the hands of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards [IRGC], a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).. Kurdish Kolbers hardly earn small living by transporting items on their own backs between Iran and Iraq, where they are systematically targeted and killed by the…

Soldiers of the Islamic Republic of Iran have shot dead to Kurdish civilians and wounded another on 11 August. “Iranian forces opened fire on the car of two Kurdish citizens in the Sardasht area where the solders suspected them of allegedly transporting smuggled items,” a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). A 36-year-old woman identified as Jaleh Ghaderzadeh was killed inside the car and the…

Iranian border guards have shot dead dozens of horses that they confiscated from Kurdish Kolber workers in the town of Baneh in the country’s Kurdish region. The border guards confiscated the horses from the Kurdish Kolber workers in the neighbourhood of Kooteh Rash in the town and killed the horses in the same place on 2 August, locals said. The horses were rounded up and killed…

The Iranian military forces have shot dead two Kurdish Kolber workers identified as brothers in the Alan border area of the Sardasht region, and a state of curfew has been declared in the area following the shooting, according to reliable local sources and eyewitnesses. The victims shot dead on 27 June at 2100 local time have been identified as brothers, 22-year-old Rauf Alixani and 26-year-old…

Kurdish shopkeepers, Kolber workers and tradespersons in the Iranian Kurdish city of Piranshahr have jointly protested against the border closure with the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The Iranian Kurdish city of Piranshahr is situated on the Iraqi Kurdish region’s border. “The protesters gathered outside the building of the city’s governorate in Piranshahr demanding complete opening of…

A 17-year-old Kurdish h Kolber worker, Abdolxalegh Ghafari, drowned while at work trying to cross the Choman-Baneh river in the Kurdish region on the Iraq-Iran border on 25 March. His body is yet to be found despite a thorough search by his family and local residents of the border area. “After unsuccessful efforts to find Abdolxalegh’s body, a mourning ceremony was held for him on 29…

Two Kurdish Kolber workers have died of heart attack while working in the past two weeks because of the “difficulty of their job and constant fear of the Iranian security forces on the borders,” a human rights activist told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “Kurdish Kolber worker Ahmad Azizpour, who is from a border area near the city of Baneh, suffered a heart attack…

Iranian government troops shot dead a 22-year-old Kurdish Kasibkar (tradesperson) on false suspicion of smuggling in a village near the city of Mariwan (Marivan) on 6 March, a Kolber worker who witnessed the incident told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Kurdish Kasibkar worker Madih Partoee, 22, was shot dead by an Iranian government troops patrol that was under the command of Colonel Parvizi at the…