CChapter 3: Comparative analysis of nationality laws • Dismissal from public service for reasons relating to honour or honesty: Kuwait and Qatar. As with the failure to fulfil military obligations, this provision can only be invoked against naturalised nationals and is likely also an expression of the idea that a display of disloyalty will be penalised by the withdrawal of this naturalisation. • Terrorism: Morocco. With the latest amendment to the Moroccan nationality law, passed in 2007, one new ground for deprivation of nationality was introduced – conviction for an act of terrorism.153 While it is likely that a person convicted of terrorism could have been deprived of his nationality on one of the previously existing grounds in the law, the authorities evidently felt the need to add this explicit clause.154 More problematic are an isolated selection of further loss and deprivation provisions that allow for withdrawal of nationality on grounds that are prohibited under international law: • Religion: In Kuwait, nationality can be deprived – or rather, naturalisation voided – if a person 153 - Article 22(1c). See also D. Perrin, Country Report: Morocco, EUDO Citizenship Observatory, October 2011, available at http://eudo-citizenship.eu/ admin/?p=file&appl=countryProfiles&f=Morocco.pdf. 154 - See further Table 6 of the annex. 119

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