Category Archives: Statements

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 [...]

Bahraini Dissidents Face Loss of Citizenship, Forced Exile

Eight people were deported on 30 January and 1 February 2018 from Bahrain to Iraq’s [...]

Stop Revoking Citizenships – BIRD Publishes Full Documentation

8 February 2016 – In the five years since the ‘Arab Spring’ uprising, which began [...]

Bahrain: Writers Stripped of Citizenship

Bahrain should take immediate steps to reinstate nationality for writers unduly stripped of their citizenship, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bahrain: Halt deportation of individuals arbitrarily stripped of nationality

A decision by a court in Bahrain today to deport 10 people who have been [...]

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 [...]

Bahraini opposition figures stripped of nationality in ‘frightening and chilling’ development

The Bahraini authorities today stripped 31 opposition figures of their Bahraini nationality in a move [...]

12 stripped of citizenship file appeals

A GROUP of 12 former citizens whose Bahraini nationalities were revoked three years ago have [...]