Syrian Citizenship Disappeared
Mohammed Amin Ramadan al-Mohammed talked about the hardships he and his family faced
owning to be ajanib. He commented,
“The sole thing I want to understand
is how can a man have a baby but
be unable to legally register him. Let
alone the problems of marriage. I
have three sisters no one proposed
to marry due to their legal status.
The same happened to my brothers
and me.”
2.5.15. Legal Obstacles Ahead of
Marriage
Over the decades that followed the 1962 census, legal obstacles arose in the administration
of couples whose one spouse was a stateless. For
Mohammed Khalil,113 lawyer and human rights
activist, the issue of the stateless of al-Hasakah
is one of the worst discrimination projects exerted against the Kurds, prompting him along with
other lawyers to assist legally presented in confirmation of marriage and births. Through the
following table he explained the situations they
came across.
113 A lawyer and activist who resides in Qamishli northeastern Syria. He is working at Adel Center for Human
Rights that work to document human rights violations
and spread awareness of the culture of civil peace. He has
been a lawyer since 2001 and has contributed with other
activists to establish the Kurdish Organization for Human
Rights DAD in 2005. The interview was conducted via the
Internet on July 26, 2018.
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