The Case of Masaud M. Jahromi On Saturday 31/1/2015, Masaud Mirza sectarian reasons. Dr. Jahromi’s statelessness Jahromi, an academic at Ahlia University in was an obstacle to his academic ambi.ons, Manama, was having lunch with his family as he was only able to obtain a temporary when he began receiving messages from travel document to con.nue his university some of his friends, asking him if stories studies outside the country. ANer he finished about his na.onality being revoked were his Master’s in Control Engineering and true. At that .me, a list of 72 Bahraini Informa.on Technology in the United na.onals whose na.onali.es were revoked Kingdom, he was accepted for a PhD by a royal decree was circula.ng on social programme in Network Engineering at the media. Dr. Jahromi saw his name on the list University of Kent. In the summer of 1999, without receiving any official no.fica.on just before finishing his PhD thesis, Dr. from the authori.es. Jahromi was obliged to return to Bahrain to visit his sick mother. His stay in Bahrain lasted Dr. Jahromi’s hardship with statelessness has almost two years, because the authori.es a long history. He is from a Bahraini family of refused to provide him another travel Persian origin, that has lived in the country document to return to England and defend for more than a century. However, only some his PhD thesis. It was not un.l 2001, aNer of his family members were able to obtain Bahrain implemented some reforms, that Dr. Bahraini na.onality, the rest were considered Jahromi finally gained the right to a Bahraini “Bidoon” (without na.onality), for racial and na.onality and was able to obtain his PhD. arrested on 14 April 2011. Security forces At the .me of the 2011 February Uprising in raided his house in the middle of night and Bahrain, Dr. Jahromi was a professor at Ahliya dragged him out in front of his family without University in Manama and the president of a providing any warrant or explana.on. ANer cultural centre. Even though he was not in five months in jail, during which he was the country at the beginning of the protests allegedly tortured, ill-treated, subjected to and did not par.cipate in any poli.cal or constant humilia.on and placed in solitary public event at the .me, Dr. Jahromi was confinement for two months, he was put on 13 | Arbitrary Revoca.on of Na.onality in Bahrain - a Tool of Oppression