Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces today opened fire on a group of kolbars in the mountainous Qandil region of Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, killing 19-year-old Kiyan Zeyni and wounding two brothers, Peyman and Keyvan Ghaderi. IRGC forces stationed at the Kotarleh military base in Sardasht opened fire on the group at close range and without warning, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has...

Iranian border guards in Kermanshah Province opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Nowsud border area this morning, killing one kolbar and wounding six others, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Kolbar Ayoub Mohammadi died of his injuries after being taken to Quds Hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah Province. Mohammadi was a 29-year-old father of one child from the village of Kugah in...

Iranian border guards shot and killed Arkan Balvaseh, a 29-year-old kolbar, this morning in the Tateh border area of Hawraman in Sarvabad, Kurdistan Province. A source who spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) said: "In the early hours of Friday 21 June, a group of kolbars in the Tateh border heights, while carrying no goods, were targeted by Iranian border guards at close...

Hazhir Mahmoudpour, a young kolbar from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was fatally shot by border guards in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On the evening of 4 June, a group of kolbars were targeted by border guards' gunfire, leaving Mahmoudpour seriously injured. He was taken to Ghods Hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, but died this morning despite...

Three kolbars, identified as Parviz Ghaderi, Mozaffar Asad-Rokh, and Salah (surname unknown), have been wounded in recent days by gunfire from border guards in the border areas of Baneh, Sarvabad and Marivan in Kurdistan Province, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. On 4 June, Ghaderi, a 29-year-old kolbar from Saqqez, was shot and seriously wounded by three bullets in the leg in the...