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Kuwaiti repression gathers pace as thousands more stripped of citizenship


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Issue 1195 - 16 Jan 2025 | 5 minute read

Almost 30,000 Kuwaitis have lost their citizenship over the past five months, including more than 10,000 people in the opening weeks of January. The policy is being run by interior minister Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah, with an opaque decision-making process that appears designed to stifle critics as much as address alleged problems around fraud.

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