Young kolbar killed without warning by Iran border forces in Marivan
Asaad Afranjeh was shot and killed by Iranian border guards in Marivan, Kurdistan province, late on 31 July.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that border guards opened fire at close range and without warning on a group of kolbars near the village of Askol in Marivan, resulting in the death of a 25-year-old kolbar.
The slain kolbar, Asaad Afranjah, from the village of Sianav in Marivan, was the father of a child.
According to KHRN statistics, four other kolbars – Ayoub Mohammadi, Kiyan Zeyni, Ehsan Nowruzi and Nazem Safari – were also killed by border guards in July in the border areas of Nowsud in Kermanshah Province, Sardasht in West Azerbaijan Province and Marivan in Kurdistan Province.
