Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 24 June, killing 27-year-old Wrya Sharifi. According to reports, Sharifi was shot in the head from close range and without any prior warning, resulting in his immediate death. His body was transferred to the Salahuddin Ayoubi Hospital in Baneh and has not yet been handed...

Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars on 11 June in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, wounding kolbar Rahim Feyzi. The 50-year-old kolbar from Bukan, West Azerbaijan province, was injured in both legs and taken to a hospital in Baneh. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Iranian border guards injured at least 11 kolbars...

Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border region of Nowsud in Kermanshah province on 5 June and injured four kolbars, including a child. The identities of the four kolbars are: Shuan (last name unknown), 35 years old from the village of Satyari; Ali Hosseini, 17 years old from the village of Balabzan; Soran Daneshi, 20 years old from the...

Iranian border guards shot dead kolbar Houshyar Hassanzadeh today in the Zeleh border area in Baneh, Kurdistan province. The border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars, wounding the 20-year-old kolbar in the chest. He was taken to Baneh Hospital but died from the severity of his injuries. According to statistics compiled by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), at least 13 kolbars were injured and...

Iranian border guards injured two kolbars in the border areas of Piranshahr and Sarvabad in north-west Iran on 18 May. In recent days, border guards also raided the barns of a number of villagers in the Hengeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, and took some pack animals to the border areas and shot them. On 18 May, border guards opened fire on a group...

Two kolbars have been injured in the western border areas of Iran over the past two days. Iranian border guards shot and injured Kolbar Akam Mohammadzadeh, 27, in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 11 May. In addition, Zakaria Abdi, a kolbar from Salas-e Babajani, was injured on 10 May after falling from a border height in Nowsud, Kermanshah province. According to statistics...

Mersad Darvishi, a 19-year-old kolbar who was severely injured yesterday along with five other kolbars in a car accident in the Shwankareh mountain pass in Ravansar, Kermanshah province, passed away today due to the severity of his injuries at Kermanshah's Taleghani Hospital. The other five kolbars injured in the car accident are Zakaria Ahmadi, Salah Rahmani, Zakaria Mohammadi, Makvan (last name unknown) and Vahab (last...

A kolbar lost his life and four other kolbars were injured in a car accident on 19 February in the border region of Ravansar, Kermanshah province, western Iran. On the evening of 19 February, a car carrying kolbars crashed on its way to the Shwankareh mountain pass in the border areas of Ravansar, as a result of which kolbar Saman Yaghoubi lost his life and...

Iranian border forces opened fire on a group of kolbars in the border region of Nowsud in Kermanshah province on 15 February, injuring a kolbar identified as Nemat Azizi. The 45-year-old kolbar, who was injured in the leg, was taken to a hospital in Paveh, Kermanshah province, for treatment.