PRINCIPLES ON DEPRIVATION OF NATIONALITY AS A NATIONAL SECURITY MEASURE
and to equal treatment before the law must be respected, protected and
fulfilled.
8.2.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy and reparation. States must
provide those who claim to be victims of a violation with equal and
effective access to justice and effective remedies and reparation, which
include the following forms: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation,
satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition.
9.
FURTHER HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMANITARIAN
AND REFUGEE LAW OBLIGATIONS AND STANDARDS
Deprivation of nationality is also limited by other obligations and
standards set forth in international human rights law, international
humanitarian law and international refugee law.
9.1.
The right to enter and remain in one’s own country
9.1.1. All persons have the right to enter, remain in and return to their own
country.
9.1.2. States are prohibited from expelling their own nationals.
9.1.3. In no situation, including where a person has been deprived of their
nationality, may a person be arbitrarily expelled from their own country
or denied the right to return to and remain in their own country.
9.1.4. The scope of the term “own country” is broader than the term “country of
nationality”. It includes a country of former nationality that has arbitrarily
deprived the individual of its nationality, regardless of the purpose of the
measure and whether or not this deprivation causes statelessness.
9.2.
The prohibition of refoulement
9.2.1. In line with principles of international refugee law, States must not expel
or return (refouler) any person, including one whom they have stripped of
nationality, to a situation in which they face a threat to life or freedom or
risk facing persecution, including on the grounds of race, religion,
nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
9.2.2. In line with the principles of international human rights law, States must
not expel or return (refouler) any person, including one whom they have
stripped of nationality, to a situation in which they face a real risk of
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