Two kolbars have been injured in the western border areas of Iran over the past two days. Iranian border guards shot and injured Kolbar Akam Mohammadzadeh, 27, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 11 May. In addition, Zakaria Abdi, a kolbar from Salas-e Babajani, was injured on 10 May after falling from a border height in Nowsud, Kermanshah province. According to statistics…
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Iranian border forces shot dead Kurdish tradesman Yaghoub Abbasi in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 18 April, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Forces of the Border Guard Command opened fire on a group of tradesmen at the Alut border region in Baneh, severely injuring Abbasi. The civilian lost his life after his transfer to a medical centre in Orumiyeh, West…
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Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of tradesmen in the Gadar area of Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province, on 2 April, killing civilian Eynollah Ghadernezhad. Another civilian identified as Mohammad Latif Khaledi, 51, was shot several times and severely wounded. The border forces targeted the tradesmen without prior warning and from close range, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Two other civilians, Mohammad Sedigh…
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Mersad Darvishi, a 19-year-old kolbar who was severely injured yesterday along with five other kolbars in a car accident in the Shwankareh mountain pass in Ravansar, Kermanshah province, passed away today due to the severity of his injuries at Kermanshah’s Taleghani Hospital. The other five kolbars injured in the car accident are Zakaria Ahmadi, Salah Rahmani, Zakaria Mohammadi, Makvan (last name unknown) and Vahab (last…
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A kolbar lost his life and four other kolbars were injured in a car accident on 19 February in the border region of Ravansar, Kermanshah province, western Iran. On the evening of 19 February, a car carrying kolbars crashed on its way to the Shwankareh mountain pass in the border areas of Ravansar, as a result of which kolbar Saman Yaghoubi lost his life and…
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Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border region of Nowsud in Kermanshah province on 15 February, injuring a kolbar identified as Nemat Azizi. The 45-year-old kolbar, who was injured in the leg, was taken to a hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah province, for treatment.
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Iranian border forces shot dead kolbar Hossein Mohammadi in the border region of Nowkan in Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 10 February. Mohammadi, 50, was a father of two who came from the city of Rabat, West Azerbaijan province.
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Iranian forces have killed a kolbar and a tradesman in the border areas of Baneh and Piranshahr in the past few days. The border guards in the Hengeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, targeted a group of kolbars on 2 October, killing a 28-year-old man identified as Saman Zarei. Three days earlier, on the evening of 29 September, a group of Kurdish tradesmen who…
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Iranian border forces killed a kolbar and injured another after opening fire on a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah province on 25 September. Reportedly, the kolbars identified as Mokhtar Mir-Veysi and Ahmad Yousefi were targeted from a close range and without prior warning. Mir-Veysi, who was a father of two and came from Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province, died due to…
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In its monthly reports, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) highlights cases of human rights violations in Kurdistan and violations of the rights of Kurdish civilians in different regions and cities across Iran.
This report includes all cases recorded and reported by KHRN from across Iran through its own sources and verification mechanisms from 1 April to 30 April.
The restrictive environment for independent human rights organisations in Iran, coupled with the pressures faced by individuals subjected to human rights violations and their families, make it difficult to publish accurate and comprehensive reports.
It is therefore important to note that the statistics and information presented in this report do not cover all cases of human rights violations. This report is the result of examining news and reports published by the KHRN and fact-checking of reports published by other human rights organisations and news websites.
Executions
According to KHRN’s findings, Iran executed at least six prisoners in April, four on drug-related charges and two for “premeditated murder”.
The executions took place in prisons in Orumiyeh, Hamadan, Kerman, Karaj, Saqqez, and Ardabil.
*Explanation: The KHRN, recognizing the fundamental right to life, publishes and records news and execution statistics without regard to the ethnic background of individuals and the location of the execution. All cases reported to the organisation by credible sources are published after thorough fact-checking.
Landmine explosions
In the past month, landmine explosions killed a civilian in Gilan-e Gharb and injured another in Saqqez.
Kolbars and tradesmen
During this period, at least four kolbars were shot dead by Iranian border guards and 22 kolbars were injured.
Of the injured, 18 were shot by Iranian border guards, two fell from heights at the border, one was beaten and one was injured during the pursuit of the border guards.
Detentions and arrests
Throughout April, Iranian forces arrested at least 45 civilians, including eight activists, a journalist, and a former political prisoner.
At least 13 of the detained civilians were sent to prisons in Oshnavieh and Naqadeh to serve prison sentences.
Sentences
In the past month, Iranian courts have sentenced at least 10 people to punishments ranging from three months to 10 years in prison.
Among those sentenced was Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin, who was sentenced to five years of exile imprisonment in Babak, Kerman Province, by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran after one year and seven months of detention.