• States are prohibited from expelling par.cularly where it results in their own na.onals;45 statelessness;47 The prohibi.on of refoulement, The liberty and security of the person, meaning that States must not expel or meaning that everyone has the right return (“refouler ”) any person, to liberty and security of the person including one whom they have and that no one shall be subject to stripped of na.onality, to a situa.on arbitrary arrest or deten.on;48 in which they face a threat to life or • • • Legal personhood, meaning that freedom or risk of persecu.on, or everyone has the right to recogni.on face a real risk of serious human everywhere as a person before the rights viola.ons;46 law and that all persons are equal The prohibi.on against torture and before the law;49 c r u e l , i n h u m a n o r d e g ra d i n g • The right to private and family life;50 treatment or punishment, whereby • The rights of the child,51 in par.cular depriva.on of na.onality is likely to every child’s right to acquire a cons.tute cruel, inhuman or na.onality,52 the best interest of the degrading treatment or punishment, child, and considering that “being Ibid., Principle 9.1, see also e.g. Arts. 9 and 13(2) of the UDHR; Art. 12(4) of the ICCPR; Art. 27(2) of the Arab Charter on Human Rights. 45 Ibid., Principle 9.2, see also Art. 33(1) of the Refugee Conven.on; Art. 3(1) of the Conven.on Against Torture (CAT); Art. 16(1) of the Interna.onal Conven.on for the Protec.on of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (CED). 46 47 Ibid., Principle 9.3, see also Art. 5 of the UDHR; Art. 7 of the ICCPR; Arts. 1 and 2(1) CAT. 48 Ibid., Principle 9.4, see also Arts. 3 and 9 of the UDHR; Art. 9(1) of the ICCPR. 49 Ibid., Principle 9.5, see also Art. 6 of the UDHR; Art. 16 of the ICCPR. 50 Ibid., Principle 9.6, see also Arts. 12 of the UDHR; Art. 17(1) of the ICCPR. 51 Ibid., Principle 9.7. 52 Ar.cle 24(3) of ICCPR; Art. 7(1) of the CRC. 30 | Arbitrary Revoca.on of Na.onality in Bahrain - a Tool of Oppression