Shocking reports from Iran indicate that Afghan migrants and asylum seekers are facing increasing violence and severe mistreatment from Iranian border forces. The reports, published by Afghan media, include harrowing accounts of killings, beatings, and systematic humiliation.
One account details the story of Sohrab, a 16-year-old who attempted to go to Iran for work after the fall of the republic. According to the report, he was shot in the back and killed by an Iranian border guard at the Milak border crossing near Nimroz. Sohrab's relatives claim the guard did not have authorization to fire.
The family's tragedy did not end there. To retrieve his body, his mother was asked to pay 50 million Toman or sign a consent form for an autopsy. Left with no choice, the family signed the form. However, what they received was a body that, according to relatives, was "cut from throat to stomach" and crudely stitched up.
A second narrative comes from an Afghan migrant activist, identified as "H.R.," who was helping his compatriots at the Nimroz border after the fall of Kabul. He says he witnessed Iranian border guards beating Afghan migrants, young and old, "with pipes and clubs while constantly swearing at and humiliating them."
The activist claims that the Iranian government uses Afghan migrants as a political pressure lever, particularly regarding the Helmand water dispute. He points to recent mass arrests of Afghan workers and students in Varamin, near Tehran, who were detained with beatings and insults without any inquiry into their legal status.
These reports depict a small fraction of the suffering that Afghan migrants endure in the neighboring country. Many such incidents go unreported due to a climate of pressure and fear, but they point to a deep human rights crisis at Iran's borders and within its cities.
Source: Afghan Media
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