Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iranian border guards have targeted a number of Kurdish Kolbars and civilians in Oshnavieh (Shno in Kurdish), Sardasht and Piranshahr. As a result, one kolbar has lost his life while two others have been injured. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Iranian border guards have opened fire at a group of Kolbars near the “KileShin” in the border area of Shno on...

Since late July, the border guards of Iran have targeted a number of Kurdish Kolbars and Tradesmen. As a result, four kolbars and tradesmen have lost their life while eight others have been injured only during the past 3 weeks. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that, on July 30, 2019, a Kolbar “Ali Bahrami” was injured due to falling from the border...

A 25-year-old Kolbar “Fakher Abdollahi” was killed by direct shooting of Iranian border guards in the border area of Piranshahr on August 07. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that, more than 10 horses were also killed during the shooting. Earlier, on July 30, 2019, Iranian border guards in the border area of “Shakge Rokhav" of Piranshahr also targeted a group of Kolbars at the...

A Kolbar was killed in Sardasht while another one was wounded at the border of Khoy after being shot by military forces during the past few days. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that law enforcement forces have targeted a group of Kolbars in “Dolebi” border area of Sardasht on July 14, 2019. As a result, a kolbar “Bryaji (Mohammad) Ibrahimzadeh“ has been...

“Mansour Gerje”, a Kolbar from Sardasht, was killed by direct shooting of Iranian border guards in the border area of Sardasht while two other kolbars “ Gharib Azizadeh and Saman (Family name Unknown) were injured on Monday evening during the shooting of border guards in the border area of Shno. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Iranian border guards around "Kani Zard”...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): The dead body of a Kolbar was found by the local people after three months at the frontier hights of the village of Bruishkhani of Baneh. "Two shepherds from the village of Brushkhani of Baneh at the border of Hojra Faghihan found a dead body yesterday. The local people have identified the dead person as Abbas Qaderzadeh, who went missing...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 29-year-old Kolbar, Shaker Pourkhaled from Dizaj Mirghoor village of Orumiyeh, died of frostbite at the village of Darman Abad in Sardasht on March 18. According to a Kolbar in Orumiyeh, a number of Kurdish citizens living in the border villages of Orumiyeh such as Oshnavyeh, Piranshahr and Sardasht have turned into Kolbari over the past few years due to...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Since late February, one Kolbar has been killed and at least six injured after being directly shot by Iranian border guards. During this time, three Kolbars, one of whom was 17 years old, have lost their life due to frost and falling from mountains. On the evening of March 16, 2019, Iranian border guards in the Nawsoud border targeted a...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): A 17-year-old Kolbar, Afshar Sayyadi Niaz choked with snow after falling of high mountains in Tata of Paweh. “Afshar Sayyadi Niaz, born in 2002 and a year 9 student at the Shahin high school of Marivan, had turned to kolbari [carrying goods across the border as a Kolbar] since summer due to his father's unemployment and family financial situation”, one...