Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Two kolbars were injured in a landmine explosion in the Bolfat mountainous border area of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, on 26 March. Raouf Ahmadi, 39, from Zuran village in Sardasht, and Jabbar Ahmadzadeh, 28, from Kaneh Mashkeh village in Sardasht, were injured in the incident. Ahmadi reportedly suffered a leg amputation. Both were taken to medical facilities in Sardasht for treatment.

A 15-year-old child kolbar died of frostbite, while three other kolbars, including a 16-year-old child, were shot dead by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Kurdistan and Kermanshah provinces on 24 March. Hastiyar Abdolkarimi, a 15-year-old kolbar from Divandarreh in Kurdistan Province, died of frostbite on 24 March in the Mishaw border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Residents of the border area discovered the…

Wrisha Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), and Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish activist and former political prisoner, are still detained in state of uncertainty in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Moradi, with the organisational code name of Jwana Sna, was charged with “armed insurrection” (baghi), which carries the death penalty, and Azizi was accused of “membership in a group or organization aimed…

Security forces attacked a group of young people in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 21 March for playing music and having fun. As a result of the forces’ shooting, two Kurdish youths, Mohammad Ahmadian and Arman Basiri, were seriously injured in the leg. The incident took place in the Eastern Park near the historical site of Tagh-e Bostan. A source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights…

Iranian border guards fatally shot 22-year-old Soran Abdi, a kolbar, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 24 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Abdi was first injured when border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars at close range and without warning, and died of his wounds on the way to hospital due to the…

Peyman Ahmadi, a 35-year-old kolbar from Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, was shot and killed by Iranian border guards in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah Province on 23 March. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ahmadi was fatally shot at close range and without warning. Ahmadi’s body has been taken to a medical facility in Nowsud, but has not yet been released to…

Thousands of people attended today’s Newroz (also known as Nowruz in Persian) celebrations in Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province, despite challenges and threats by security forces to prevent the event. After a group of civil and cultural rights activists in Gilan-e Gharb announced plans to hold a Newroz celebration on 21 March, security forces recently pressured and threatened the organisers to cancel the event. The Kurdistan Human…

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), along with 42 other human rights organisations, has issued a joint statement calling for the extension of the mandates of the United Nations Special Rapporteur and the UN Fact-Finding Mission on Iran. The statement, delivered concurrently with the detailed reports of the UN Fact-Finding Mission and the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran to…

Maryam Razmjou, a young woman, her mother and her brother, were fatally shot by her husband in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, on 14 March. The husband was quickly arrested by the authorities a few hours after the shooting. Razmjou was a radio-oncology resident at Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences. In a separate incident on 10 March, Ziba Sayyad, a 27-year-old woman from the village of Hasar-e Kani Spi…