Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The Iranian authorities have interrogated three Kurdish civil society activists for having participated in an event held to remember victims of a chemical attack in the border town of Sardasht on 28 June. Two of the Kurdish activists, Mostafa Azizpour and Salahedin Khezri, were interrogated and threatened not to take part in such events. The other activist, Farhad Lotfi, had walked from the Kurdish town of...

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...

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 was shot, killed by the direct shoot of Iran’s military forces in the border region Sardasht, yesterday. On Wednesday, 15 June a group of Kolber (border couriers) was shot by Iran’s border forces in the Betush area in the outskirts of Sardasht and a kolber named Sirwan Azizi from Doltanchak village of Sardasht killed on the spot, a local source told Human...

A young Kulbar from Rabt, Sardasht hospitalised in Tabriz hospital for over a month, died due to the severity of his injuries on Thursday, 27 April. He was shot and injured by Iran military forces. As a result of gunfire, opened by the Revolutionary guard another young Kulbar was injured in Baneh border  Choman, a village in the Bowalhasan Rural District, Namshir District, Kurdistan...

Iranian government troops have opened fire killing and wounding Kurdish Kolber workers and their horses in the Sardasht border area, according to local sources that spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) about the most recent deadly shooting incidents. Iranian military forces opened fire wounding two Kurdish Kolber workers Abdullah Arjang and Ebrahim Abdi in the Alan borer area near the town of Sardasht...

Kurdish shopkeepers, Kolber workers and tradespersons in the Iranian Kurdish city of Piranshahr have jointly protested against the border closure with the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, a reliable source told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). The Iranian Kurdish city of Piranshahr is situated on the Iraqi Kurdish region’s border. “The protesters gathered outside the building of the city’s governorate in Piranshahr demanding complete opening of...