A P P E NDIX 4
S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E
A P P E ND IX 4
(Unscientific or proxy) Sample selection of citizenship
revocation events based on open source reporting, March 2024
- December 2025
Observation: Our organisations collated, from overwhelmingly, but not exclusively, Englishlanguage sources, reports of GoK citizenship revocations. As we do not have access to the Official
Gazette, Kuwait al-Youm, the data collected was only ever intended to be symbolically
representative of overall GoK conduct and in order to develop a proxy for impact assessment.
We uploaded the data - around 114 pages of media platformsʼ reports - to ChatGPT5.2. These
reports are cited throughout this text. We ʻaskedʼ ChatGPT5.2 that it structure the information in
a chronological event table, with (by column) number impacted; reason (s) cited for the
revocation, including by generating a typology or category list of those reasons where there is
significant degree of correlation; source details, including the URLs of the reports. We requested
an observations column to which we added additional material.
T H E taxonomy G E N E R AT E D F R O M T H E S A M P L E N E W S R E P O R T S
C AT E G O R Y
DE FI N I T I O N
FRAUD_FORGERY
fraud/forgery/false statements/misrepresentation; incl. certificate withdrawals for fraud, ie Arts 13 and
21
DUAL_NATIONALITY
dual/multiple nationality grounds, usu Art 13
MARRIAGE_ART8
marriage-based naturalisation / Article 8-related
NATIONAL_INTEREST
“higher interest of the state” / public order / services to the state; broad discretion
SECURITY_TERRORISM
security/terrorism/undermining allegiance/subversive affiliations
LEGAL_POLICY
where source does not cite specific reason save for the decision or measure enacted, eg by
committees, decree-laws, appeals procedures
UNKNOWN
not clearly stated in the excerpt/source context
CONTINUES OVERLEAF →
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