Executive Summary This report looks at Bahrain’s revoca.on of ci.zenship of human rights defenders and advocates aNer the 2011 Bahraini uprising. It analyses the Bahraini na.onality law and subsequent amendments adopted by the state to revoke na.onality and deny rights to its ci.zens to quell dissent. The power to revoke na.onality and incur statelessness, though concentrated in the hands of the state, is not a power unchecked. Human rights conven.ons, norms, interna.onal law, and further safeguards against statelessness will also be discussed in terms of the role they play in limi.ng unchecked State powers of revoca.on. Increasingly, many states cite na.onal security as a way to legi.mise and validate their greatly delegi.mate and invalid acts of state sovereignty-performance of na.onality revoca.on – a mo.ve that will be analyzed with regards to interna.onal human rights standards. 2 revoca.on case studies of former Bahraini na.onals will be examined, as well as other metric data recording the increased trend by Bahraini authori.es to strip na.onality in the past decade. 7 | Arbitrary Revoca.on of Na.onality in Bahrain - a Tool of Oppression