deported to Iraq on 30 October 2017. Mr. his family. Mr. Karimi remains stateless to this Karimi currently lives in Mashhad, Iran with day. Conclusion - Justice Denied As this report has demonstrated, na.onality A person’s na.onality is intricately connected revoca.on has become one of the main to their own iden.ty, as well as their wider weapons in the GoB’s arsenal, not to protect belonging to their country. Further, na.onal security, but to s.fle dissent, crack na.onality oNen serves as a gateway right – down on human rights defenders and further without na.onality, it is more difficult to entrench the state’s authoritarian and an.- access and enjoy other basic rights, and it is democra.c agenda. As such, the prac.ce sits more difficult to access jus.ce and challenge alongside other well documented human rights depriva.ons. Consequently, revoca.on rights abuses by the state, including torture, of na.onality is an increasingly popular arbitrary deten.ons, extra-judicial killings, strategy used by governments to s.fle sham trials and the use of the death penalty. dissent and punish detractors. The combined The situa.on in Bahrain, ten years aNer the threat of having your iden.ty stripped, your Arab Spring, is desperate. However, agents of rights trampled upon and your legal status to the state con.nue to abuse human rights, reside in the country taken away is extremely including the right to na.onality, with potent. This is also why there are strong impunity. In fact, as this report has shown, interna.onal safeguards against na.onality laws have been passed to give a veneer of depriva.on, which Bahrain con.nues to legality to acts which are clearly arbitrary and disregard. amount to serious viola.ons of interna.onal human rights law. From 2012 to 2019, a total of 985 individuals were arbitrarily stripped of their na.onality either by a court order, a royal decree or 37 | Arbitrary Revoca.on of Na.onality in Bahrain - a Tool of Oppression