S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E In March and April 2024, over a month before the ruler, Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, issued the decree forming the Supreme Committee for the Investigation of Kuwaiti Nationality (the Supreme Committee), “the government issued 13 decisions and three decrees stripping citizenship from 63 people, including 23 women”, including political dissidents. 73 Below we set out a fuller timeline of revocation events. The actions of the Supreme Committee for the Investigation of Kuwaiti Nationality may be considered to have violated 10-15 rights and freedoms set out in, amongst other treaties, the ICCPR and the CEDAW. The January 2026 revocation of the citizenship of Kuwaitʼs own ambassador to London exemplifies the arbitrariness and absurdity of Kuwaitʼs citizenship revocation campaign. The GoK revoked the citizenship of (former) Ambassador Badr Mohammed al-Awadhi on intergenerational grounds (for more on this type of revocation, see Snapshot 2, below): the authorities posthumously revoked - apparently on the allegation of fraudulent acquisition - the nationality of his father, Mohammed Ibrahim alAwadhi, a former security officer. 74 The GoKʼs 2024-5 citizenship revocation campaign has affected all strata of society. Anecdotal evidence suggests that most Kuwaitis know a family that is affected: the number of wives impacted is many tens of thousands alone; with dependents, the total number rises exponentially. Every week between March 2024 and December 2025, the GoK published, seemingly on an ad hoc basis, vast lists of newly denaturalised people. Receiving no official communication from the GoK, Kuwaitis learned of their status by being denied access to their own bank accounts, being informed by their employer or a financial institution or sometimes by seeing their names on lists of revocations on Instagram. On other occasions, victims had to request access to the list of denaturalised people on Kuwait al-Youm, the Official Gazette. The government generally did not inform people; those impacted had to scan for their own names or those of friends and family in the lists published in the Official Gazette. 75 32