Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A wounded Kurdish border porter –known as Kolbar- "Khezer Binava" from the village of Korbinaw in Sardasht, died after 10 days in a hospital in Mahabad due to serious injuries, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). He was shot and severely wounded by the shooting of Iranian border guards in the Kani Sew area of Sardasht on Dec 22.   Another Kolbar, Mohammad...

The Iranian border guards directly targeted a group of Kurdish border porters -known Kolbars- at Baljuk village of Khoy on 5 January and injured two Kolbars, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). 20-year-old Behnam Alizadeh and 25-year-old Ali Yusefi were targeted and wounded by the border guards. The KHRN released a report on 5 January regarding the death of Kolbars in 2019. According to the...

Paris, January 05, 2020 – The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) announced that 79 Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar-  and tradesmen have been killed and another 66 have been injured by the Islamic Republic of Iran's military forces, or due to natural disasters along the Kolbari routes in 2019. According to the statistics compiled by the KHRN, 57 people were killed by direct shootings of the Iranian...

The Iranian Border Guards shot dead tradesmen Nasser Moradpour and Semko Qadarnia in the border areas of Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) as they were returning to Iran's border without carrying any goods, and the Guards “dumped the bodies of of the dead tradesmen into a river,” local soruces told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). “The two tradesmen had left with a group of tradesmen on the border...

A Kurdish border porter –known as Kolbar- lost his life at the border area of Hange Jal in Baneh when the Iranian Border Guards opened fire at a group of Kolbars in the morning of 13 November, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) According to eyewitnesses, Taher Hosseini from the village of Sadbar in Baneh was shot from a close range “even though he...

The Iranian checkpoints forces in Kurdistan opened fire at the Kurdish Kurdish border porters –known as Kolbar- of which three of the Kolbars were wounded, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Hassan Heydari from the village of Tooreh at Safavid district of Khoy has been wounded by direct shooting of the checkpoint forces on 9 November. He is being treated at Khoy's Imam Khomeini Hospital...

A Kurdish border porter -known as Kolbar- was injured in a mine explosion at the Shushami border crossing in Paveh district on 5 November, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). Ashkan Fattahi was transferred to Ayatollah Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah due to suffering from serious injuries who lost 50% of his left leg ability. Fattahi had also been targeted by the Iranian border guards in the Nusud...

The Iranian Border Guards opened fire at a group of border porters, known as Kolbar, in Piranshahr which led to killing a Kolbar named Idris Weisi, a local source confirmed to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The Iranian Border Guards stationed at the Milan outpost of Piranshahr opened fire at the group of Kolbars on 15 September. 

A 25-year-old Kolbar “Fakher Abdollahi” was killed by direct shooting of Iranian border guards in the border area of Piranshahr on August 07. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that, more than 10 horses were also killed during the shooting. Earlier, on July 30, 2019, Iranian border guards in the border area of “Shakge Rokhav" of Piranshahr also targeted a group of Kolbars at the...