At least one courier has been killed and five other people injured near Iran’s border with Iraq since August 23, 2018, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. News of ...
An attorney representing Iranian border couriers, “kulbar” in Farsi, has criticized a local governor in northwestern Iran for making “unreasonable” and “empty” promises of financial assistance to the impoverished, unlicensed tradesmen. On September 11, ...
Six Kurdish artists and activists are being detained in Dizelabad Prison in Iran’s Kermanshah Province for protesting the latest killing by Iranian border guards of “...
Local MP Calls for Investigation A protest was met with tear gas in the city of Baneh in northwestern Iran on September 5, 2017, after people gathered in front of the local governor’s office to demonstrate against the ...
The killing, by border guards, of another kulbar—the Persian word for the border-crossing couriers who transport illegally imported goods into Iran—has prompted 250 Iranian civil rights activists to demand ...
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The Iranian government should immediately investigate the numerous cases of border security forces killing couriers in the northwestern provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah, and hold accountable those responsible for such callous use of unlawful force, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...
