Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 15 November, killing kolbar Jalal Heidarian. Heidarian was a 28-year-old civilian from the village of Qachian in Divandarreh, Kurdistan Province. Similarly, on 14 November, another group of kolbars were targeted by border guards' gunfire in the same region, killing Yadegar Rahimi and injuring another kolbar.

Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 14 November, killing kolbar Yadegar Rahimi and injuring another. Additionally, four kolbars, including two children, were injured by border guards in an earlier incident on the same day in the same border area. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border guards...

Kurdish tradesman Azad Sattar-Panah was fatally shot by border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 7 November. The incident followed a verbal altercation between Sattar-Panah and border guards, which resulted in the guards opening fire. Border guards have also shot and wounded at least seven kolbars in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, and Baneh in recent days. The Kurdistan...

Iranian border guards have shot and wounded more than 24 kolbars in Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, over the past week. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learnt that on the evening of 2 November, the border guards opened fire without warning and at close range in the border areas of Nowsud, injuring nine kolbars with shotgun pellets. The identities of seven of the injured kolbars are:...

Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border area of Nowsud, Kermanshah province, on 30 October, seriously injuring kolbar Erfan Moradi. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the border guards opened fire on the kolbars at close range and without warning, leaving Moradi critically injured with a bullet wound to the head. Following the incident, Moradi was transferred...

Kolbar Mohsen Abdollahi was killed by gunfire from Iranian border guards in the Kileh border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 24 October. The 35-year-old man was shot at close range and without prior warning while on his way to the border, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Abdollahi's body was buried in the cemetery of Kupich-e Sofla village in Baneh. Abdollahi, 35, was a...

Iranian border guards today shot dead Farid Vatani-Rasoul, a 34-year-old kolbar, in the Darrevaran border area in Marivan, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the forces opened fire on the kolbar at close range and without warning. They reportedly aimed directly at Vatani-Rasoul's head, causing his immediate death. Vatani-Rasoul was a father of three from the village of Neshkash in Marivan. According to...

Border forces near the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan Province, opened fire on a group of kolbars without warning and at close range on 30 September, resulting in the death of a young kolbar, Mohammad Khaledi. The body of the deceased kolbar, from the village of Chichuran in Baneh, was taken to the Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in the city. According to statistics compiled by...

Hamed Farajpour, a 38-year-old kolbar from Saqqez, Kurdistan Province, passed away today after being shot by Iranian border guards yesterday in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Farajpour was injured after border guards opened fire on a group of kolbars without prior warning. Despite being transferred to Salahuddin Ayubi Hospital in Baneh for urgent...