Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Iranian border guards shot and killed Ali Ghaderi, a 50-year-old kolbar, in the border areas of Marivan, Kurdistan Province, on 18 December. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that a group of kolbars were targeted by border forces without prior warning, resulting in Ghaderi's death. Ghaderi was a father of four from the village of Zanuri who lived in Marivan.

Habib Rezaei, a 52-year-old kolbar who was seriously injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, on 26 November, died of severity of his injuries on 12 December. The injured kolbar was hospitalised in the intensive care unit of Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah for 17 days. Rezaei, from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was critically injured after a bullet fired by...

Ahwan Dashti, a 28-year-old kolbar from the Baneh, Kurdistan Province, was killed by gunfire from Iranian border forces in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh this morning. Border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area without prior warning and at close range, killing Dashti, who comes from the village of Miradeh in Baneh, was killed. In the past...

Habib Rezaei, a 52-year-old kolbar who was seriously injured by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, is currently in a critical condition in the intensive care unit of Taleghani Hospital in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province. Rezaei, from Javanrud, Kermanshah Province, was critically injured on 26 November after a bullet fired by border guards at close range and without warning...

Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of the city of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, on 26 November, killing 28-year-old Yavar Veysi. The kolbar was initially injured by the border guards' gunfire without warning and at close range, but died from the severity of his injuries after being taken to Nowsud hospital. Veysi was a 28-year-old father of two from...

Iranian border guards fatally shot Farough Alizadeh, a 17-year-old kolbar from Rabat, Sardasht County, West Azerbaijan Province. The incident took place on the morning of 26 November in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal area were fired upon without warning by border guards in close...

Asaad Hasanpour, a 25-year-old kolbar from from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, who was wounded by Iranian border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on the night of 21 November, died in hospital today due to the severity of his injuries. Hasanpour, who was shot in the stomach at close range and without prior warning, died at the Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in...

Kolbar Ghasim Karimi lost his life last night after a fall from the mountainous border areas of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Karimi fell during a storm in the border areas of Orumiyeh, resulting in the loss of his life. Karimi, 23, was a father of two from the village of Firouzian in the Sumay-ye Bradost district of...