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.
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