[redblacktree]

> On a slightly related topic, in demonstrations, people caught without a cell phone during an ID check often end up arrested for "administrative reasons".

So the likely reason for this is so that they can get an accounting of who was there, right? Where are you referring to?

[pygy_]

I guess it's because no cell phone means no mean to track you remotely, which can otherwise be done, even if your phone is turned off.

It is definitely taken as suspicious.

Source: an alter-globalist activist acquaintance who demonstrates (peacefully) every other day.