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| Kuwait Revokes More Citizenships Citing State Security |
| 2014-08-12 |
| [AnNahar] Kuwait has revoked the citizenship of 10 people, including activists, the government said Monday in the second such move in less than a month as part of a crackdown on dissent. The decision announced after a cabinet meeting did not identify those affected by the decision, but local media said they were opposition figures. The cabinet said the decision was based on a provision in the nationality law that allows citizenship to be revoked of those who threaten Kuwait's security, social order or economy. Local media said among those affected were activist Nabil al-Awadhi, who is close to the Moslem Brüderbund, and Saad al-Ajami, a former journalist turned front man for the opposition Popular Action Movement. On July 21, Kuwait revoked the citizenship of several people, including the owner of a pro-opposition television station and newspaper, Ahmad Jabr al-Shammari, and former Islamist opposition MP Abdullah al-Barghash along with his family members. Human Rights Watch ... During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, HRW received a pledge from the Foundation to Promote Open Society, of which George Soros is Chairman, for general support totaling $100,000,000. The grant is being paid in installments of $10,000,000 over ten years.Through June 30, 2013, HRW had received $30,000,000 towards the fulfillment of the pledge.... denounced the action in a statement on Sunday as a "crackdown on people seeking reform". "No government has the right to strip away its people's citizenship simply because it disapproves of them, their opinions, or their actions," said HRW's Joe Stork. "This is yet another downward step in Kuwait's assault on the right to free speech," he added, urging the government to reverse its decision. Last month, the cabinet said the citizenships of Barghash and his relatives were revoked because they had been granted on the basis of false information. OPEC member Kuwait has a native population of 1.25 million, a large number of them through naturalization, and hosts 2.8 million foreigners. Unlike other Gulf states, it has a democratically-elected parliament. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 If history is a guide, they are Palestinians. |
| Posted by: Beldar Sloque3832 2014-08-12 13:15 |
| #2 Lovely people, the Kuwaits. Think Detroit, with an oil boom and very strictly controlled visas. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-12 03:21 |
| #1 So many foreigners because they refuse to work or do manual labor for themselves. If it wasn't for the oil we should have let Saddam have his way with them. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2014-08-12 03:17 |