Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Zanko Ahmadi, Zanest Hassannejad, and Soroush Makari were three Kurdish Kolbars killed by the Iranian border guards in the Bajar area of Sardasht, On Monday morning, September 14,2020. Two days later, in an interview with the Iranian state media, the West Azarbaijan border commander described the killed Kolbars as a "border trespasser and supported the killing of these individuals by forces under his...

At least four Kolbars have been shot dead by Iranian border guards who opened fire on a group of Kurdish Border Porters - known as Kolbar- and traders in the border areas of Sardasht and Piranshahr in West Azerbaijan Province. On Wednesday, September 2, 2020, a group of Kolbars and border traders near the village of "Gholharsheh" were shot in Sardasht in a place called...