A Porters Was Killed by Border Guards Direct Fire

By direct firing of the Revolutionary Guard Border Forces, Mohammad Husseinzad was shot and killed in the border area of Piranshahr.

According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on Thursday, June 13^th, 2019, 30-years-old Mohammad Husseinzad, a villager from Zali in area of Namshir, in Baneh province, was shot dead in the Baneh border area by direct firing of the border guards.

Since the beginning of this year, tens of porters have been killed or wounded in the border areas by direct firing, cold, drowning in the river and falling from the height.

Three provinces, Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azerbaijan that have border with Iraq and Turkey are the main places of porters’ activity, who, due to lack of employment and extensive economic problems in the border regions, are forced to transport goods from Iran to Iraq and vice versa using informal customs entry with a very low wage.