S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E SALAM DHR spoke to four women impacted by the Article 8 revocation and who had sought to obtain temporary government documents aimed at lessening the impact of the revocation, affording the bearer rights and privileges of citizens. Yet some women interviewed by SALAM DHR said they will not seek new Kuwaiti IDs out of principle. Those who have made their cases public claimed they are being pressured to write a Letter of Sympathy to the Minister of Interior, officially apologising for failing to produce their “original passports”, and promising to acquire their former nationality.118 One interviewee stated that the GoK instructed agencies to seize their pensions if officials deemed they were resisting.119 What concerned most were reforms to Law No. 38/1980 promulgating the Civil and Commercial Procedures Law in tandem with the denaturalisation campaign. Reforms to Law 38/1980 allow for individuals who cannot pay their debts to be arrested.120 Denied access to employment, pensions, bank accounts and their properties, these newly stateless Kuwaitis have limited or no means to pay such agencies or creditors, placing them at risk of arrest. The accounts of acute vulnerability are compounded by reports of threats, both direct and otherwise, from the GoK. One interviewee, a Lebanese naturalised Kuwaiti, who has lived in Kuwait since she was five, claimed the names and civil IDs of denaturalised Kuwaitis are published by the government, which tacitly encourages campaigns of harassment online.121 Other impacted persons said they have kept silent because “Anyone who speaks about Article 8, man or woman, can be taken by the authorities and beaten.”122 One lamented, “I donʼt leave my home. Iʼm scared of what will happen.”123 Trapped, yet resilient, victims interviewed expressed desperation, but also hope, that international attention towards their tribulations can bring them justice and relief. SN A PSH OT 6 Lack of redress and intersectional impacts Scores of cases exemplify the intersectional and intergenerational impacts of the citizenship stripping campaign and its multiple injustices: one woman - name redacted - wrote to NASI on 14 August 2025 and explained: I am a Kuwaiti woman, divorced, with original citizenship, and I have children who are stateless. They suffer severe injustice, as they have no civil rights, no passports, no civil ID cards, no work, and no rights. Kuwaiti women suffer severe injustice and oppression under the new Kuwaiti government laws. Although the Kuwaiti constitution guarantees equality between men and women, all our rights are being taken away. Please do justice for our children, whose future is uncertain and dark.124 In this instance, the children of a Kuwaiti woman, where the non-Kuwaiti father is no longer present in Kuwait, sets out concern for her stateless children who have no rights, while vague constitutional assertions of equality provide no remedy when the Nationality Law prohibits conferral of nationality. As noted above, a woman of Iranian heritage, where the nationality or status of the husband is not disclosed, but naturalised by marriage, explained to NASI that in November 2024, the government revoked her citizenship without due process [...]: “[L]eaving me and my 18-year-old daughter at risk of statelessness and severe hardship. I have been a resident of Kuwait since 1994 (over 30 years). My daughter, a Kuwaiti by birth, suffers from a serious immune deficiency that is aggravated by stress. The threats and pressure from the Kuwaiti authorities have already caused her severe health relapses, including gastrointestinal bleeding. She lost her scholarship and fell behind in her studies due to this situation. We have been explicitly threatened that unless I obtain an Iranian passport by August 2025, all our rights will be revoked, our bank accounts frozen, and we will be deprived of all benefits.”125 46