Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards fatally shot kolbar Salar Ahmadi on 9 May in the Qandil mountainous region between Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ahmadi was shot when border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars with DShKs on the territory of Iraqi Kurdistan. The body of the kolbar, from Nalas in West...

A kolbar, Ata Rostampour, was shot dead by Iranian border forces in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 5 May. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the incident occurred on the evening of 5 May when a group of kolbars came under fire from border forces, resulting in the death of Rostampour, a kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province. Rostampour's...

Iranian border guards shot dead Jalal Sohrabi, a 40-year-old kolbar, in the Sourkev region of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 2 May, marking the second such incident within 24 hours. Sohrabi, a father of two from the village of Tajan in Baneh, was shot when border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars at close range and without warning, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

Hemin Ahmadi, a 45-year-old kolbar, was fatally shot by Iranian border guards in the Bastam border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, on 1 May. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ahmadi, a father of one from Saqqez, was shot when a group of kolbars were targeted by border guards at close range and without warning.

Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Sardab border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 21 April, killing kolbar Shwana Ahmadpour. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border guards targeted the group of kolbars at close range and without warning. Two other kolbars were reportedly injured in the shooting and have been taken to a medical facility...