Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civilian Akhtar Khanom Moradi died on 21 April as a result of injuries sustained from the detonation of unexploded ordnance from the Iran-Iraq war in the village of Gur-e Sefid in Gilan-e Gharb, Kermanshah Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Moradi was injured on 20 April while collecting scrap iron and died the following day at Al-Zahra Hospital in Gilan-e...

A landmine explosion in the Nowsud border area of Kermanshah Province injured two kolbars, Mohammad Mirani and Aboubakr Rostamian, in the early hours of 7 March. Additionally, Ata Hosseini, a 32-year-old kolbar from Paveh, Kermanshah Province, was wounded in the chest by Iranian border guards' gunfire, while Afshin Nazari, from Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah Province, was injured in the face after being detained and beaten by...

Aziz Morad Shams, a worker who was injured in the explosion of the remnants of the Iran-Iraq war in Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah province, on 8 May, died today in Kermanshah's Taleghani Hospital due to the severity of his injuries. Shams, 43, who worked as a guard at the Changaran Dam in the Ezgeleh district of Salas-e Babajani, was severely injured in the stomach and face...

A landmine explosion severely injured an employee of Iran's demining department in the border areas of Qasr-e-Shirin, Kermanshah province, on 10 April. The civilian, whose identity is not known yet, suffered severe injuries on his hands and face. He was transferred to a medical centre in Kermanshah for treatment. Every year, dozens of civilians in Iran's border areas, especially in the provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah,...

Civilian Abdol-Hossein Ghadimi died as a result of a landmine explosion in the Mimak border area of Ilam, western Iran, on 20 February. The 60-year-old civilian, who comes from the village of Kolkol-e Asemanabad in Ilam province, was engaged in animal husbandry.