Kurdistan Human Rights Network

A Kolbar was killed in Sardasht while another one was wounded at the border of Khoy after being shot by military forces during the past few days. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that law enforcement forces have targeted a group of Kolbars in “Dolebi” border area of Sardasht on July 14, 2019. As a result, a kolbar “Bryaji (Mohammad) Ibrahimzadeh“ has been...

“Mansour Gerje”, a Kolbar from Sardasht, was killed by direct shooting of Iranian border guards in the border area of Sardasht while two other kolbars “ Gharib Azizadeh and Saman (Family name Unknown) were injured on Monday evening during the shooting of border guards in the border area of Shno. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Iranian border guards around "Kani Zard”...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Over the recent days, the border guards and the anti-smuggling unit of Islamic Republic of Iran in Baneh, Sardasht and Paveh have targeted a number of Kurdish Kolbars and Tradesmen under the pretext of fighting with smuggling. As a result, two kolbars and businessmen have lost their life while five others have been injured only during the past 10...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The dead body of a Kolbar was found by the local people after three months at the frontier hights of the village of Bruishkhani of Baneh. "Two shepherds from the village of Brushkhani of Baneh at the border of Hojra Faghihan found a dead body yesterday. The local people have identified the dead person as Abbas Qaderzadeh, who went missing...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): As a result of a series of direct shooting of Iranian border guards, a Kolbar was killed while two others were wounded. Moreover, three Kolbars from Sardasht and Piranshahr died of frostbite at the borderlands of Piranshahr last nigiht. KHRN has been informed that a group of Kolbars in the frontier elevations of the Kani Khoda of Piranshahr have suffered...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Two Kolbars from Baneh and Sardasht have been injured by shooting of Iranian border forces. KHRN has been informed that the border forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran opened fire at the caravan of Kolbars in the border area of Genav of Sardasht on March 31, 2019. This incident resulted in a 30-year-old Kolbar, Raouf Soleimani being wounded in...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The border forces at Shooshme checkpoint in the city of Paveh targeted a group of Kolbars, which resulted in a Kolbar "Ibrahim Khoshnood" being wounded in his leg. Ibrahim Khoshnood, from the village of Hajij and resident of Paveh, has been taken to one of the medical centres of Kermanshah due to the severity of his injuries.

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 26-year-old Kolbar, Jabar Mahmoudi, was injured by direct shootings of the border forces. Meanwhile, another Kolbar- Aref Odaak from the village of Zhivar of Saravabad- passed away due to the cardiac arrest at the Nosoud border inside the Iraqi Kurdistan. According to data collected by KHRN, a Kolbar was killed and seven others were wounded by direct shootings of Iranian...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 29-year-old Kolbar, Shaker Pourkhaled from Dizaj Mirghoor village of Orumiyeh, died of frostbite at the village of Darman Abad in Sardasht on March 18. According to a Kolbar in Orumiyeh, a number of Kurdish citizens living in the border villages of Orumiyeh such as Oshnavyeh, Piranshahr and Sardasht have turned into Kolbari over the past few years due to...