Kurdistan Human Rights Network

One Kurdish Border Porter –known as Kolbar- was killed and two others were wounded after being shot by the Iranian border guards in the Somay Bradust border area of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), on May 24, 2020, a group of Kolbars from the village of Koran in the Somay Bradust area of the Orumiyeh border region were directly shot...

During the past four days, two Kurdish Border Porters –known as Kolbar- were killed and two others were wounded at the Khoy and Sardasht borders in the West Azarbaijan province by the direct shooting of the Islamic Republic of Iran's border guards. Another Kolbar also lost his life due to falling from the border heights of Baneh in Kurdistan province. "A Kolbar named "Kamran Molania" was shot...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that one of the 8 Kurdish Porter wounded in a shootout has passed away at Kermanshah Hospital on February 17. Shahed Adak, a 20-year-old resident of the village of Jivar of Sarawad, was single. https://www.facebook.com/KurdistanHRN/videos/605925546632588/?t=0 According to reports, he was initially taken to the hospital in Paveh from Nowsud Medical Center on February 16, before being...

On Sunday evening, February 16, Iranian border guards in Nowsud targeted a group of Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar, as a result of which one Kolbar was Killed and six others were wounded. "Iranian border guards in Nowsud targeted a group of Kolbars without prior warning. This incident led to the death of a 24-year-old Kolbar Ahmad Sahrayaee and serious injury of six other Kolbars...

A group of Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar- were ambushed by the border guards in the Shushme border area of Paveh county. The forces detained the Kolbars and shot at their loads -before confiscating- which led to one Kolbar being wounded in his leg in addition to severely beating up one of the Kolbars who sustained injuries as a result, local ...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned from multiple and verified sources that two Kurdish Kolbar porters died and 12 others were injured in January 2020. One of the dead was killed by Iranian government forces and the other, a 55-year-old Kolbar worker, froze to death in adverse weather conditions. Government troops also shot and injured 11 Kolbar and Kurdish tradesmen. Another was injured  after he fell off from a mountainous...

Two Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar-  have been injured at the Ghotour border areas (Kutul) of Khoy as a result of being shot by Turkey’s military forces on January 26 and transferred by a Van to a hospital in Turkey, sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Informed sources in Ghotour have told KHRN that both Hussain Hadizadeh, 29, and Ali Hadizadeh,...

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) learned that three Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar-  have been wounded in the Salmas, Piranshahr and Sardasht border areas as a result of being shot by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s military forces during the past three days. According to reports received, border guards of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the border areas...

A Kurdish border porter (known as Kolbar) named Jamal Balaki was injured in a fall from the heights of the Tata Heraman border. Other Kolbars have reportedly taken Jamal Balaki to a medical centre in Marivan after he was injured. Tata Hawraman defile is one of the highest heights and rainiest border areas of Kurdistan. In the past few years, a large number of...