A P P E NDIX 4 S TAT E L E S S B Y D E C R E E AP PE N D I X 4 — CO N T I N U ED EV EN T D AT E N U M B ER A F F EC T ED TA X ON OM Y ‘R A W ’ R EA SON SOU R C E OB SER V AT ION S 2025-05-25 37000 FRAUD_FORGERY Media synthesis: large-scale revocations, often affecting women naturalised through marriage; reasons commonly framed as fraud/regularisation and nationality-law enforcement. AFP story: mass denationalisation; mostly women; ‘stateless overnight’ framing Estimate/synthesis; cross-check with primary official announcements for precise totals. Official gazette reportedly published decrees; detailed reasons not provided in most cases (per article). Kuwait revokes citizenship of 363 individuals UN SR discusses nationality revocations’ disproportionate impact on women.. End of mission statement: UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women (nationality issues, impact on women) MARRIAGE_ART8 2025-08-19 2025-09-09 363 Apparently individual LEGAL_POLICY see observations → FRAUD_FORGERY DUAL_NATIONALITY LEGAL_POLICY 2025-02-13 2025-02-16 2025-04-09 33200 batch, over 6 months UNKNOWN 9464 batch, but also individuals cited DUAL_NATIONALITY, Since Sept 2024, approx 42,00 cited The New Arab (AFP) · Media Secondary reporting; notes limited explanation for grounds. Shia Waves · Media OHCHR / UN Special Rapporteur (Reem Alsalem) · UN Instagram post (see image) Number affected: Statement says: “as of August 2025, between 40,000 and 60,000 individuals have been affected” Provides qualitative assessment and an affected-population range elsewhere in SR materials/press. Makes preliminary recommendations. Instagram post Zaid Benjamin on instagram · Media FRAUD_FORGERY More than 9,000 people lose their citizenship in Kuwait at once. LEGAL_POLICY Arabi21 Mass citizenship stripping in Kuwait cements authoritarian turn, critics say Peninsula Includes acquisition via family dependency; inc 9418 women via dependency; 38 and 3 identified separately but no details; and “ decisions were also issued to revoke the citizenship certificates of four men and one woman. “; 5 identified separately, on basis of dependency States that “Supreme Committee to Investigate Kuwaiti Citizenship [...] operates in the absence of any judicial oversight or appeals process. Amwaj (opinion piece) · Media 2025-05-22 More than 1292 Sweeping move: 1,290+ citizenship revoked in Kuwait Shafaq · Media Inc.: 8 dual nationality; 189 for acquisition through fraudulent means, including false statements and forged documents, including dependents; 73 for misrepresentation and document falsification, with dependents; 1 for actions considered to undermine allegiance to the state; 50 for ‘national interest’; 967 also ‘national interest’; 4 Article 8. CONTINUES OVERLEAF → 67

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