Kurdistan Human Rights Network

During the past 9 days, officers of Iranian Disciplinary Force (NAJA) have killed a Kurdish citizen and injured four others on the false pretext of smuggling in Kermanshah and Ravansar. "On the morning of July 9, a Relief Unit under Command of Iranian Disciplinary Force in Kermanshah Chased a vehicle (Peugeot 405) belonging to a Kasibkar (tradesman) from Kamyaran at the entrance to the city...

A photo of Younes Feizi, the young Kurdish Kolbar from Piranshahr who has lost both his legs in a landmine blast in childhood, has been widely shared on social media over the past few days. This photo has attracted the public's attention to the issue of Kolbars and the wretched condition of this hardworking community in Kurdistan. The government has never allocated any special...

A young Kolbar ((back carrier), who had been shot in his head, lost his life after one week of hospitalisation in Mahabad Hospital due to the severity of his injuries. He was shot by the Iranian armed forces a week ago in Kani Zard, in the Central District of Sardasht County. “Zorar Mohammadi, a 20-year-old resident of ‘Nlas village’ in Sardasht, along with several other...

Iranian border guards attacked a group of Kurdish kulbars (Border Couriers) around the village of Kani Zard of Sardasht city today morning and a Kolbar was severely injured. On Tuesday morning, June 27, Iranian border guards targeted a group of Kurdish kolbars around the village of Kani Zard of Sardasht city a Kolbar from Nalas with the name of Zerwar, was seriously injured by being...

Two Kurdish Kolbars were shot dead and wounded after being directly shot by the border guards in Orumiyeh. An informed source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on the evening of 22 June, a group of kurdish kolbars (Border Couriers) were attacked by the Iranian border guards and two Kurdish Kolbars were shot dead and wounded in “Wargenem” area on the border between Orumiyeh and...

The murder of a Kurdish Kolbar, Sirvan Azizi, on June 14th, in the border areas of Sardasht followed a protest by civil and political activists, but in the most recent case, a Kolbar killed by a bullet shot by a border guard in the border areas of Piranshahr and another Kolbar was injured. An informed source told Human Rights Network Kurdistan that, on Wednesday night,...

The latest on the reaction to the murder of Sirwan Azizi, Kurdish Kolbar, who was carrying several cartons of cigarettes in the Betush area in the outskirts of Sardasht, 250 activists in an open letter expressed their sympathy with Sirwan Azizi’s family and other Kolbar families who have lost their family members in recent years and condemn against killing of Kolbers by Iran's authorities...

A Kurdish Kolber (Border Couriers) from Mariwan stepped on a landmine that was left from the Iran-Iraq war in this area. According to the information received by the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, a Kurdish Kolber, Anoushirvan Rezaei from Hilzawa Village of Mariwan wounded in a landmine explosion in the Darwaran, a border region of Mariwan, on Saturday, June 17, 2017. He is hospitalised in Mariwan and...

Over the past two weeks, two Kulbars were killed and 25 others were injured when a car and a minibus carrying Kulbars overturned in the border region of Marivan. According to Human Rights Network Kurdistan, On Sunday 24 May, around 15, on the “Band Dezli”road, in the Central District of Sarvabad County, Kurdistan Province, Iran, a car (Peykan), which was carrying Kulbars, have overturned and...