SALAM DHR STATISTICS ON REVOCATION OF NATIONALITY IN BAHRAIN62: 31 revocations 2012 0 revocations 2013 21 revocations 2014 All 31 revocations were announced in a 7 November administrative order by the Ministry of Interior, under Article 10 of the Bahraini Nationality Law, for “causing damage to the security of the state”,63 and published by the Bahrain News Agency (BNA).Two former parliamentarians, human rights and political activists and religious scholars were targeted. All nationalities were revoked without due process, amendment to the nationality law), the Interior Minister had no power to revoke nationality. Sameera Rajab, a spokesperson and Minister for the Bahraini Government, stated that: “It is true that the stripping of citizenship is reserved as a power for the King, but he has ordered it in this circumstance and given the Interior Minister powers to circumvent the usual procedures.” All nationality revocations were by the courts, • • • In August, a 9 people were convicted on charges of “participation in an illegal organisation and having ties with Iran” and stripped of their citizenship. In September, 9 individuals had their nationality stripped for allegedly “smuggling arms into the country”. A defence lawyer involved claimed that that their confessions were extracted under torture. In November, 3 Bahrainis nationality was revoked and sentenced to 10 years in prison.65 90 revocations 208 revocations 2015 • 2016 • • - A 31 January statement published by BNA, announced nationality 66 This was formalised by Decree No. 8 67 stating that their nationality was revoked on the basis of Article 10(c) of the Bahraini Nationality Law. All nationalities were revoked without due process, vestigations. The list included a former MP, 8 religious’ scholars, journalists and an academic. A further 136 people had their nationality stripped, mostly by the criminal courts.68 harming national interests.69 • of 3 members of the National Guard for engaging in “activities that harm the interests of the Kingdom.”70 • imprisonment, and two others to 10 years, ordering the revocation 2017 156 revocations 2018 298 revocations also revoked the citizenship of 11 suspects in the “Dar Kulaib Warehouse” case.71 • terrorist group case, and ordered their nationality revocation. • Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, the prominent religious leader of the Shiite sect in Bahrain.73 • • 181 revocations es to 115 Bahraini nationals and revoked their citizenship over terrorism-related charges. 2019 • • to life imprisonment to 139 citizens and stripped the nationalities of 138 of them.75 According to the UN, 17 of the convicted persons were minors, ranging in age from 15 to 17 years. 63 sub-total 985 reinstated 551 TOTAL 434 List of the 31 individuals available on the ‘Ana Bahraini’ website: <https://www.anabahraini.org/ - ship-rights-stripped-away> https://www. > 65 reinstated the citizenship of 551 individuals who had their citizenship stripped through court orders.76 Ibid. https://www.bna.bh/en/ArchiveDe- 66 remain with their citizenship revoked. > > 67 https://www.anabahraini.org/wp-content/uploads/ 68 > > > 69 70 f> 71 Ibid. 73 75 76 > > > >