Iranian border guards fatally shot Ali Zarghami, a 52-year-old kolbar, in the border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, in the early hours of 3 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that at 02:00 local time on 3 March, the border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Mishiaw border area of the Sarshiv district of Saqqez without warning and…
Read moreA group of kolbars were fired upon by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 26 February, resulting in the death of Jafar Faraji, a 40-year-old kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border guards opened fire on the kolbars without warning and at close range. The body of Faraji, a 40-year-old father…
Read moreIranian border forces targeted dozens of kolbars in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah Province on 24 February, injuring at least 20 people. The forces used pellet guns without prior warning, according to eyewitnesses. A kolbar who witnessed the incident spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: “The border guards targeted dozens of kolbars with pellet guns from a short distance without…
Read moreIranian border guards targeted a group of kolbars in the Sardab border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 11 February, killing a 26-year-old kolbar identified as Seyvan Sahihi from the village of Beleh Keh in Baneh. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border forces opened fire on the kolbars at close range and without prior warning. Sahihi’s body was taken to Salahuddin…
Read moreIranian border guards today detained two kolbars, identified as Yousef and Farzad, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, and after interrogating them for about half an hour, shot them with shotguns, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. The two kolbars from Mahabad, West Azerbaijan Province, were shot in the legs from just a few metres away and left injured. Yousef,…
Read moreFarid Roubina, a young kolbar, died of frostbite in the freezing temperatures in the border region of Hanjiran in Marivan, Kurdistan province, on the evening of 6 February. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Roubina went missing in the heavy snowfall on the kolbar route in the Hanjiran border area, and after an extensive search by the local community, his lifeless body…
Read moreIranian border forces targeted a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 4 February, wounding at least four kolbars. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the kolbars, identified as Ali Aboubakri, 30, Khalegh Aboubakri, 37, Nasser Bari, 43, and Hemin (surname and age unknown), were subjected to close-range shotgun fire by the Iranian border guards…
Read moreIranian border guards opened fire at close range on a group of kolbars without warning in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, on 2 February, wounding kolbar Kouhsar Rostamnezhad. Kouhsar Rostamnezhad, from the village of Shamshir in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, was seriously wounded in the head and taken to Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, where doctors recommended further treatment at a medical centre…
Read moreMardin Amini, a 14-year-old child kolbar from Bukan, West Azerbaijan Province, was injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 30 January. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Amini was shot in the leg when a group of kolbars in Hangeh-ye Zhal came under close fire from Iranian border guards without warning. The…
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