Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Rebwar Rashidi, a tradesman from Baneh, Kurdistan Province, died on 21 July after spending two weeks in a hospital in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, as a result of serious injuries sustained in a shooting by Iranian border guards. Rashidi was critically injured on 7 July in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh. Following the incident, he was transferred to a medical facility in Sanandaj, where doctors...

Iranian border forces killed a kolbar identified as Rebwar Rashidi when they targeted a group of kolbars in the border area of Barvish Kani in Baneh, Kurdistan province, on 26 August. "Rashidi was shot at from close range by the forces of the Hojreh border post while returning from the border without prior warning", said a friend of the kolbar in an interview with the...