A kolbar named Arash Nouri has been shot and severely wounded today by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah province. The health condition of the 30-year-old Kolbers was reported to be critical. The past week has been a bloody period for Kurdish kolbars in the country’s western border areas. During this period, border guards wounded at least 16 kolbars. Also yesterday, a kolbar…
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Forces of Iran’s Border Guard Command have killed a kolbar and wounded nine others in the past two days in the country’s western border areas. Border forces shot and killed a kolbar named Soleiman Ebrahimzadeh in the Bitush border area of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan province, on 18 April. Ebrahimzadeh, 37, was the father of a child and came from the village of Banu Khalaf in Sardasht. Separately,…
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Iranian border guards have opened fire on a group of kolbars on 16 April in the Shushami border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah province, injuring a kolbar named Touraj Karimi. The wounded kolbar was taken to a hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah province, for treatment. Karimi, 37, comes from the village of Shamshir in Paveh. Last week, border forces had wounded at least six other kolbars in the Nowsud…
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Iranian border guards have shot and wounded at least six kolbars in the past few days in the Nowsud border areas of Kermanshah and Kurdistan provinces in northwestern Iran. On 12 April, border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in Nowsud border areas in Kermanshah province, injuring at least four. These were the 30-year-old Arman Mostafazadeh, Salam Azami from Shaho district of Paveh in…
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Iranian military forces stationed in the border area of the village of Hani Garmaleh in Paveh, Kermanshah province, opened fire on a group of kolbars on 6 April, severely wounding a young kolbar from the village. Reportedly, the incident raised tension between the protesting villagers and the border guards and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for several hours. Many police and IRGC forces entered the…
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Iranian border forces have opened fire today on a group of kolbars in Nowsud border areas in Kermanshah province, western Iran, injuring three kolbars. Dozens of shots fired from border guards’ shotguns have hit the kolbars’ bodies. Reportedly, one of the wounded kolbars was a person named Ako Khoda-Moradifar, a resident of Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province. The identities of the other two kolbars are not…
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Iranian border forces have opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province, western Iran, wounding a 25-year-old kolbar named Arman Farahmand. According to witnesses, the kolbar was targeted with a shotgun and more than ten shots hit his hands, head, back, and shoulders. The injured kolbar has been taken to hospital for treatment.
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Iranian border forces have opened fire on a group of kolbars in Siranband border areas in Baneh, Kurdistan province, and killed a young kolbar named Rostam Khezri on 25 March. Some kolbars present in the area took Khezri’s body to one of the medical centres in Sulaimaniyah in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Khezri, 25, comes from Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province. He had begun working as a…
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Iranian border forces have shot and injured three kolbars in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah province, western Iran, on 8 March. The forces of the Nowsud Border Regiment opened fire on a convoy of kolbars in the evening of 8 March, wounding kolbars Pouria Abdolrahmaninezhad, Mansour Abdi, and Pezhman Abdi. These individuals, who come from Salas-e Babajani in Kermanshah province, have been working as kolbars…
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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 November to 30 November.
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 18 prisoners in Karaj, Orumiyeh, Kermanshah, Ardabil and Ilam during the month of November.
While seven prisoners were executed on charges of “premeditated murder” and nine for “drug trafficking”, prisoners of conscience Ghassem Abasteh and Ayoub Karimi were executed on charges of “spreading corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz) after 14 years in prison.
Additionally, one of these prisoners was Nazir Mohammad, an Afghan national, who was executed on drug-related charges in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.
*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.
Femicide
At least five women have been killed by their male family members in Gilabgharb and the village of Qazanchi in Kermanshah in the past month.
Kolbars and tradesmen
In November, at least three kolbars, including a 17-year-old child, were shot dead by Iranian border guards, one kolbar died as a result of a fall from the border heights and another died of frostbite in the western border areas of the country.
A total of 102 kolbars were injured during this period. Of these, 98 were shot by border guards, two fell from border heights, one was injured in a landmine explosion and one was beaten.
Among the injured kolbars shot by border guards were one 14-year-old, two 16-year-olds, six 17-year-olds, two 18-year-olds and three 19-year-olds.
Work-related accidents
On 7 November, at least one worker was killed in a work-related accident in the village of Sorkheh Dezaj in Sanandaj.
Detentions and arrests
Throughout November, Iranian forces arrested at least 31 civilians, including five children, eight activists, a rapper and an imam.
At least five of the detained civilians were sent to prisons in Tehran, Ilam, Saqqez and Sanandaj.
Prison sentences
Last month, Iranian courts sentenced at least four people from Sanandaj to prison terms ranging from one year suspended imprisonment to five years in prison.