Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Jabbar Veysi, a 30-year-old kolbar who was injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the Nowsud border area in Kermanshah Province on 29 January, died on 31 January at Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah due to the severity of his injuries. Veysi, from the village of Jujar in Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah Province, was shot at close range and suffered severe head injuries from multiple pellet...

Two kolbars were seriously injured and hospitalised by Iranian border guards in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, and Hangeh-ye Zhal, Baneh, Kurdistan Province, in the past two days. Jabbar Veysi, from the village of Jujar in Salas-e Babajani, Kermanshah Province, was targeted with shotgun pellets in Nowsud on the night of 29 January. Veysi, who was shot at close range and suffered serious head...

Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Bastam border area of Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, killing kolbar Mansour Mohammadnezhad, a 45-year-old resident of Jonian village in Saqqez. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border forces targeted kolbars at close range near the Bastam River without warning, and that Mohammadnezhad died on the spot after being hit by...

Jawhar Faraji, a 28-year-old Kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, who was seriously injured by Iranian border guards' shotgun fire at the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, two weeks ago, has lost his left leg to amputation. On 13 January, border guards shot Faraji at close range with shotguns, and he was rushed to a medical facility in Tehran for treatment after being...

Iraqi border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of Shushmi in Paveh, Kermanshah Province, on 22 January, killing kolbar Houshyar Mahmoudi and wounding another whose identity remains unknown. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the Iraqi border guards initiated the gunfire without any prior warning, targeting the kolbars at close range. Mahmoudi, a father of three from...

Iranian border guards fired at close range and without warning at a group of kolbars in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, on 20 January, killing kolbar Sadegh Mirzaei and wounding two others. The body of the 39-year-old Mirzaei, from Javanrud in Kermanshah Province, was taken to a medical centre in Nowsud, and the identities of the two wounded kolbars remain unknown. Additionally, a video...

Iranian border guards opened fire with shotguns on a group of kolbars in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, on 11 January, wounding at least three men identified as Hadi Mansouri, Parsa Zolfaghari and Borhan Rahimi. The three kolbars, from Ravansar in Kermanshah Province, were injured in their legs, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. According to the annual report published by the...

At least three kolbars have been injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the border areas of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, and Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, in the past two days. On 10 January, border forces shot and injured Mohammad Rashidpour, an 18-year-old kolbar, in the Kandeh Sour border area of Baneh. Additionally, on the night of 11 January, a group of kolbars were shot at by...

Iranian border guards have killed two kolbars after opening fire on two separate groups of kolbars since yesterday in Baneh, Kurdistan Province. On 9 January, Shoresh Khargoushi, a 33-year-old father of six from the village of Ziveh Jik in Salmas, West Azerbaijan Province, was shot dead by border guards in the border areas of Baneh. Khargoushi was shot at close range without warning and died instantly...