Ahwan Dashti, a 28-year-old kolbar from the Baneh, Kurdistan Province, was killed by gunfire from Iranian border forces in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh this morning. Border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area without prior warning and at close range, killing Dashti, who comes from the village of Miradeh in Baneh, was killed. In the past…
Read moreHabib Rezaei, a 52-year-old kolbar who was seriously injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, is currently in a critical condition in the intensive care unit of Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Rezaei, from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was critically injured on 26 November after a bullet fired by border guards at close range and without warning…
Read moreIranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of the city of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, on 26 November, killing 28-year-old Yavar Veysi. The kolbar was initially injured by the border guards’ gunfire without warning and at close range, but died from the severity of his injuries after being taken to Nowsud hospital. Veysi was a 28-year-old father of two from…
Read moreIranian border guards fatally shot Farough Alizadeh, a 17-year-old kolbar from Rabat, Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan Province. The incident took place on the morning of 26 November in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal area were fired upon without warning by border guards in close…
Read moreAsaad Hasanpour, a 25-year-old kolbar from from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, who was wounded by Iranian border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on the night of 21 November, died in hospital today due to the severity of his injuries. Hasanpour, who was shot in the stomach at close range and without prior warning, died at the Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in…
Read moreKolbar Ghasim Karimi lost his life last night after a fall from the mountainous border areas of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Karimi fell during a storm in the border areas of Orumiyeh, resulting in the loss of his life. Karimi, 23, was a father of two from the village of Firouzian in the Sumay-ye Bradost district of…
Read moreIranian border guards have shot and wounded seven kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, in recent days. The identities of the injured kolbars are Diako Ramazani, Kianoush Pashaei, Zanyar Rahzadeh, Simko Ravazi, Salah Karimi, Azad Nouri, and Hamidreza Hafezi. Three kolbars from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province – Ramazani, 25, Pashaei, 21, and Rahzadeh, 22—as well as Ravazi, 37, from Mahabad, in West…
Read moreIranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 15 November, killing kolbar Jalal Heidarian. Heidarian was a 28-year-old civilian from the village of Qachian in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province. Similarly, on 14 November, another group of kolbars were targeted by border guards’ gunfire in the same region, killing Yadegar Rahimi and injuring another kolbar.
Read moreIranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 14 November, killing kolbar Yadegar Rahimi and injuring another. Additionally, four kolbars, including two children, were injured by border guards in an earlier incident on the same day in the same border area. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border guards…
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