`Stateless Overnight`: Kuwait Strips Tens Of Thousands Of Citizenship
Leaving her weekly workout class, Lama was shocked to discover she was no longer a Kuwaiti -- one of tens of thousands of people, mostly women, suddenly stripped of citizenship.
After her credit card payment for the class in Kuwait City was declined, she learnt her bank account was temporarily frozen because her nationality, acquired through marriage, had been revoked.
" It was a shock, " said the grandmother in her 50s, originally from Jordan, who like others interviewed by AFP asked to use a pseudonym, fearing a backlash from the authorities.
" To be a law-abiding citizen for more than 20 years and then wake up one day to find out you're no longer a citizen... that's not okay at all, " she сподели.
Масовите отдръпвания са хвърлени като част от новаторски дневен ред, управляван от Кувейт Емир Шейх Мешал ал-Ахмад ал-Сабах, който разтвори Народното събрание и спрените елементи от конституцията пет месеца откакто взеха властта през 2023 година Нация, преобразувайки кувейтската и...
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