Bahrain’s Interior Ministry has stripped 69 individuals, including family members, of their citizenship. The government cited sympathy with Iran’s hostile actions and collaboration with foreign entities as reasons. These revocations, based on the Bahraini Nationality Law, target those deemed to have harmed the kingdom’s interests or breached loyalty.
BAHRAIN: Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 69 people over what it described as sympathy with Iran’s hostile acts and collaboration with foreign entities, the kingdom’s interior ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said that the 69 people included accused individuals and their family members, and that they were all of non-Bahraini origin.It said the revocations had been carried out in accordance with royal directives and were based on Article 10/3 of the Bahraini Nationality Law. The article provides for the revocation of citizenship in cases of “causing harm to the interests of the Kingdom or acting in a manner that contradicts the duty of loyalty to it.”REUTERS
