Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards have shot dead a Kurdish border porter –known as Kolbars- and wounded another one in Soore Goige border areas of Sardasht on October 8, 2019, a local sources told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The KHRN has identified the Kolbar who lost his life in this incident as Azad Qorbannejad from Mirshikh Haider village and the injured Kolbar is reportedly called Mohsen Bakr Aziz from...

Iranian border guards have shot and “severely” injured Peyman Yousefi from the village of Darman Awa in Sardasht, a Kurdish border port –known as Kolbar-, in the border areas of Beitoush in Sardasht on October 4, 2019, a source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). According to statistics compiled by the KHRN, at least one tradesperson has been killed and four...

Iranian border guards have killed a Kurdish tradesperson and wounded four Kolbar workers in the border areas of Sardasht, Piranshahr, Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) and Saqqez in the past week alone, a source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) KHRN has learned that Iranian forces had opened fire on a group of border tradespersons at the border areas of Kidie Shin near the city of...

Iranian border guards targeted a group of unarmed Kurdish border porter workers (known as Kolbars) in Orumiyeh border areas on 23 September, injuring a Kolbar from Khanik village, local sources told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The injured Kolbar, Shafi Ahmadi, was hit when the Iran border guards opened fire on a group of several Kolbars, the sources said. According to KHRN statistics, at least...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) opened fire at a group of border porters known as Kolbar in the Sardasht area injuring Mohidin Khedri, Kolbar porter workers told Kurdistan Human Rights Netowork (KHRN). . Moreover, Azad Nemati from from Sardasht, who was wounded last week in an IRGC raid, has remained at Orumiyeh Hospital. KHRN has learnt from a source that his injury is “serious and is at the risk of...

The Iranian Border Guards opened fire at a group of border porters, known as Kolbar, in Piranshahr which led to killing a Kolbar named Idris Weisi, a local source confirmed to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The Iranian Border Guards stationed at the Milan outpost of Piranshahr opened fire at the group of Kolbars on 15 September. 

Iranian border guards on 8 September targeted a group of unarmed border porter workers known as Kolbars, injuring at least three in the Piranshahr and Sardasht border areas. Local sources on the same day told KHRN that the Iranian border guards in had opened fire at near the village of Kani Zard in the Sardasht area injuring 22-year old Kolbar worker Azad Nemati. On 7 September,...

Iranian border guards shot dead a Kurdish Kolbar from Baneh in Heights of “Sartezin” village. Another Kolbar was shot and wounded by the forces in Khoy border. Meanwhile, another Kolbar was also shot and wounded by Turkish forces at “Kotul” of Khoy on Aug 23. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that a Kolbar “Abdul Salam Amini” from village of Nanour in Baneh...

Two Kurdish tradesmen were shot and wounded in the border areas of Orumiyeh and Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish) in recent days. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that border guards of Orumiyeh and Shno have opened fire at a group of Kolbars and Tradesmen in Shno border highlands on Aug 21, 2019. This incident resulted in the injury of “Sadiq Avarzi” from Bradoost...