Kurdistan Human Rights Network

On the evening of Friday, December 24, the vehicle of border Kolbars deviated from the road and overturned while returning back from Baneh border. As a result, as a result, a Kolbar died and six others were wounded. Kurdistan Human Rights Network(KHRN) has been informed that at 7:00 PM on December 24, a Toyota vehicle carrying 7 Kolbars overturned at the roadside of ‘Kuche Ray’...

Iranian disciplinary forces (NAJA) killed and wounded three Kurdish Kulbars yesterday. “On the evening of November 20, 2017, a number of kulbars in the Shaanayi Sheikh border region were targeted by Iranian security forces without prior warning. As a result, a kulbar was killed and at least two others were injured.” An informed source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to this source, the Kurdish...

Over the past few days, a young woman in Baneh ended her life by hanging herself. Kurdistan Human Rights Network )KHRN) has been informed that On Tuesday, Nov 14, 2017, a19-year-old woman called “Shabnam Khadri” (resident of Soleiman Big of Baneh) ended her life by hanging herself in her house. The main cause of her suicide has not been clearly specified so far. Reports indicate that...

On Monday, November 13, a land mine explosion at one of the Baneh border areas left a soldier dead and a border guard officer mutilated. According to reports received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), during the explosion which occurred near the Mishaw checkpoint, a soldier known as Abbas Kazemi from Khoramdreh died and a border guard officer called Ali Jalilvand lost his leg. Meanwhile,...

Kurdistan Human Rights Netwrok (KHRN)- Sherko Moarefi, a native of the Kurdish border town of Baneh, was 33 at the time of his arrest by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in a village near his hometown in October 2008. He was tried by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Saqez, which sentenced him to death on charges of: – Membership in an outlawed Kurdish party, the Komalah...

In the past few days, three detainees from Baneh, who had been arrested during street celebrations in support of the referendum for Kurdistan Independence, were released on bail. Reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) indicate that three Baneh citizens -including Fouad Hossein Zadeh, Zanyar Maroufi and Naseh Khazari- arrested on the evening of Monday, Sept 25, 2017, were released on bail on Saturday,...

In recent days, security forces have continued to arrest citizens and civil activists protesting against the Killing of Kurdish Kolbors in the city of Gilan-e-Gharb and transferred them to an Intelligent detention centre in Kermanshah. According to the reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on Sunday, of September 10, security forces raided the home of a Kurdish cultural activist known as Rasoul Sayyadan Manesh...

In recent days, security forces have continued to arrest citizens and civil activists protesting to the Killing of Kurdish Kolbars in various cities of Kurdistan. Kurdistan Human Rights Network has been informed that during the past few days, security forces have identified a number of participants in the protests to the killing of two Kolbars in Baneh several days ago and detained them while raiding...

Five Kurdish cultural activists of Kermanshah attempting to stage a demonstration in protest to killing Kolbars were arrested by Iranian Disciplinary Forces and later transferred to the Intelligence detention centre of Kermanshah IRGC. According to the information obtained by KHRN, on Thursday, September 07, five activists- who had attempted to Rally in protest to the Killing of Kurdish Kolbars- in Kermanshah’s Koudak Park were arrested...