Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish tradesman Azad Sattar-Panah was fatally shot by border guards in the Hangeh-ye Zhal border area of Baneh, Kurdistan Province, on 7 November. The incident followed a verbal altercation between Sattar-Panah and border guards, which resulted in the guards opening fire. Border guards have also shot and wounded at least seven kolbars in the border areas of Nowsud, Kermanshah Province, and Baneh in recent days. The Kurdistan...

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) forces opened fire on a group of Kurdish tradesmen in the Gadar Valley border area in Oshnavieh, West Azerbaijan province, on 9 August, killing a tradesman and wounding two others. The forces have also detained at least four other tradesmen working in the border area. The body of the killed tradesman – identified as Mohammad Amin Ahmadi – was taken...

Iranian police have shot and killed a Kurdish tradesman named Hossein Faraji yesterday in the border area of Balaki village of Baneh, in Kurdistan province. A source from Baneh told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the police opened fire on the tradesman’s car without warning and killed him on the spot. The source added that the Kurdish tradesman’s car was targeted by the police...

The Iranian border guards in the border region of Chuman Baneh targeted a group of kolbars and tradesmen. As a result, two tradesmen were wounded. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Iranian border guards were targeted a group of kolbars and border tradesmen in the Chuman area of Baneh on Nov 19, 2018. As a result of direct shooting of guards, two...