As the African Court on Human and People’s In addi.on to ensuring that depriva.on of Rights held na.onality doesn’t result in statelessness, is not discriminatory or arbitrary, there are InternaOonal Law does not allow, save various other human rights considera.ons under very excepOonal situaOons, the which also inform whether a decision to loss of naOonality. The said condiOons deprive na.onality is lawful or not. are: i) they must be founded on clear legal basis; ii) must serve a legiOmate I n a ny p ro c e e d i n g s co n c e r n i n g t h e purpose that conforms with depriva.on of na.onality, the right to equal InternaOonal Law; iii) must be access to a competent, independent and proporOonate to the interest impar.al judicial body established by law and protected; iv) must install procedural to equal treatment before the law must be guaranOes which must be respected, respected, protected and fulfilled.44 allowing the concerned to defend himself before an independent body.42 F u r t h e r, t h e i m p a c t o f n a: o n a l i t y depriva:on on the enjoyment of other In addi.on to the four criteria set out in the human rights must be assessed, to Anudo case, interna.onal law also s.pulates determine its propor:onality and that na.onality depriva.on must be lawfulness. These include: necessary, and thereby, the least intrusive • The right to enter and remain in one’s means of achieving the stated legi.mate country, meaning that all persons purpose.43 have the right to enter, remain in and return to their own country and that D) Other human rights considera:ons 42 Anudo v Tanzania (n. 28), para. 79. 43 The Principles, Principle 7.4. 44 The Principles, Principle 8 (The Rights to Fair Trial, Effec.ve Remedy and Repara.on), see also e.g. Art. 10 of the UDHR, and Art. 14(1) of the ICCPR. 29 | Arbitrary Revoca.on of Na.onality in Bahrain - a Tool of Oppression