Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Young kolbar shot dead by Iran border forces in Baneh

Asaad Espandar, a 24-year-old kolbar from Sardasht, West Azerbaijan Province, has been shot dead by Iranian border guards in the Alut border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that in the late hours of 29 August, border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars at close range and without warning, critically wounding Espandar with a bullet that...

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