MESOPOTAMIA NEWS IRAN REPORT – THE WEEK – 26 Dec 2018

EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)  

  • The casualties among border porters, known as kolbars, reached 70 killed and 101 wounded by the Iranian border guards in 2018.  This week the Kurdistan Human Rights Association (KMMK) reported injury of four Kolbars after falling under  ambushes by Iranian guards in Piranshahr and Sardasht. In Kamyarn city, on December 20, the Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced two Kurdish labor activists to a year in prison.  Mihredar Saboury and Omed Ahmadi were both charged for participation in the International Labor Day on May 1. In Urmia, on December 19, security forces of Warmia arrested two Kurdish citizens (Reza Jafaar and Akbar Qlizada) and took them to an undisclosed area. In addition, a Kurdish social media activist who was arrested last year was sentenced to three years in prison. The Islamic Revolutionary Court of Urmia sentenced Faroukh Abdi for “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”

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