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UNHCR releases new guidelines on loss and deprivation of nationality
21 May 2020 UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has today issued new guidelines on the loss and deprivation of nationality. The guidance is intended to assist governments and policy makers in interpreting relevant international law. “Decisions to deprive people of nationality [...]
22
May
May
Fanack Statements
Bahraini Dissidents Face Loss of Citizenship, Forced Exile
Eight people were deported on 30 January and 1 February 2018 from Bahrain to Iraq’s southern Shiite city of Najaf. They had been stripped of their nationality in 2012, along with 23 other Bahraini activists and human rights lawyers on charges [...]
18
Feb
Feb
Bird Reports Statements
Stop Revoking Citizenships – BIRD Publishes Full Documentation
8 February 2016 – In the five years since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising, which began on 14 February 2011, the stripping of citizenship has emerged as one of the most disturbing methods used to silence dissent. The first exercise of this [...]
13
Jan
Jan
Pen America Statements
Bahrain: Writers Stripped of Citizenship
Bahrain should take immediate steps to reinstate nationality for writers unduly stripped of their citizenship, PEN American Center said in a statement today. On Saturday, January 31, the Ministry of the Interior of Bahrain released a statement publicly revoking the citizenship [...]
15
Sep
Sep
ADHRB Bird Statements
Bahrain Strips Citizenship of 56 Including 9 Children, Bringing 2015 Total up to 128
11 June 2015 – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) and the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) condemn the unfair trial of 61 persons in a single terrorism case, and the court’s decision to strip the citizenship [...]
09
Sep
Sep
cpj Statements
Four Bahraini journalists stripped of citizenship
Washington D.C. February 4, 2015–Bahraini authorities revoked the nationality of at least four journalists among a total of 72 citizens, after accusing them under article 10 of the country’s citizenship act of supporting terrorism, the state-run Bahrain News Agency reported. Those named on the Ministry of [...]
25
Aug
Aug
Amnesty Statements
Bahrain: Halt deportation of individuals arbitrarily stripped of nationality
A decision by a court in Bahrain today to deport 10 people who have been stripped of their Bahraini nationality must be quashed, said Amnesty International. The 10 are among 31 people whose nationality was arbitrarily revoked in November 2012. In [...]
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Jul
Jul
Amnesty Statements
Amnesty: Bahrain: cleric stripped of nationality facing imminent deportation threat
Shaikh Hussain al-Najati reportedly given 48 hours to leave country and warned that his family may be harmed if he fails to leave Bahrain’s government must end its intimidation of a Shi’a Muslim cleric who has been stripped of his nationality, [...]
31
Jul
Jul
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