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3
September
2025

Human-rights groups describe checkpoint searches of phones and arrests

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📅 3 September 2025 📍 Iran

The joint Amnesty-HRW report said checkpoints introduced after the June conflict involved invasive vehicle and mobile-phone searches, with people arrested for alleged collaboration based on content found on phones, including social-media posts. The report said checkpoints were also used to arrest Afghans labelled “unauthorized.” These are findings and examples reported by rights organizations.

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Motorists

phone users

Afghan migrants

Organizations in this Event

Iranian security forces

Amnesty International

Human Rights Watch