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Britain
Two men wrongly stripped of British citizenship, UK court rules
2018-11-21
[PRESSTV] A UK court has ruled that two men from Bangladeshi backgrounds, who were stripped of their citizenship by the British government, must have their nationality rights restored.

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) said that the British government had wrongly determined that the two men, who are identified only as E3 and N3 to protect their identities, were British-Bangladeshi dual nationals and could therefore be served with citizenship revocation orders.

One of the two men was born in Bangladesh and the other was born in the UK, but the court ruled that both had lost their Bangladeshi citizenship when they were 21, and had never taken any positive action to keep it.

The SIAC ruling could have legal implications for many more cases involving British citizens who have been subjected to the highly controversial and legally contentious citizenship deprivation orders in recent years, because of government concerns about the threat of suspected fighters returning from Syria.

One of the men, N3, said that he had been stranded in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
for more than a year by the case, and had been involved in aid work in the country helping Syrian refugees. E3's case is not understood to be Syria-related.

Speaking after the ruling was published, N3 said he was innocent of any wrongdoing.

"I feel that my country stabbed me in the back by removing my citizenship right after I left the UK last year to return to running my business and carrying out important aid work in Turkey," he said.

"Hopefully now the courts will force the Home Office to stop taking people’s citizenship away without any right - it’s a practice that belongs to medieval times".

The Home Office had cited "terrorism-related and national security grounds" for stripping both men of their citizenship.

But the orders can be issued on the basis of suspicion alone, with no requirement for the recipient to have been charged or convicted with any offence, providing that the Home Secretary deems that their presence in the UK is "not conducive to the public good" and doing so does not render them stateless.

The UK is widely considered to have the most extensive citizenship-stripping powers of any Western state, with lawyers and human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
campaigners comparing the process to "medieval exile".

Some British nationals stripped of citizenship have subsequently been killed in dronezaps, and kidnapped and rendered to the US.

Posted by:Fred

#1  "The UK is widely considered to have the most extensive citizenship-stripping powers of any Western state"

But uses them far too seldomly.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-11-21 11:28  

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