ix.
Repeal the 2006 Law of Protecting Society from Terrorist Acts or amend it so as to provide a
clear and narrow definition of terror activity and to prevent the arbitrary prosecution of
activists, human rights defenders, and other civil society actors.
x.
Ensure that stateless individuals living in Bahrain can access their fundamental rights,
including the right to education, travel, healthcare, own property and access social services
Annex – Additional Information on Statelessness and Deprivation of Nationality
in Bahrain
For further information on statelessness and the arbitrary deprivation of nationality in Bahrain, please see
the following publications:
Apart in Their Own Land Vol. II: Government Discrimination Against Shia in Bahrain, ADHRB, the Bahrain
Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), and Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), March 2015,
http://www.adhrb.org/2015/03/adhrb-bird-and-bchr-publish-new-report-on-shia-discrimination/
Apart in Their Own Land Vol. II: Government Discrimination Against Shia in Bahrain, ADHRB, BIRD, and
BCHR, September 2015, http://www.adhrb.org/2015/09/adhrb-releases-part-2-of-shia-discriminationreport/
“Bahraini officials deport human rights lawyer Taimoor Karimi,” ADHRB, 1 July 2016,
http://www.adhrb.org/2016/07/bahraini-officials-deport-human-rights-lawyer-taimoor-karimi/
“Bahraini Scholar Dr. Masood Jahroomi Forcibly Deported After Citizenship Revocation, as Pattern of
Discrimination
Continues,”
BCHR,
BIRD,
JHRO,
and
ADHRB,
8
March
2016,
http://www.adhrb.org/2016/03/bahraini-scholar-dr-masood-jahroomi-forcibly-deported-citizenshiprevocation-pattern-discrimination-continues/
“Bahraini Sheikh Mohammed Khojasta deported after citizenship revoked,” BCHR, the European Centre
for Democracy and Human Rights (ECDHR), BIRD, Justice Human Rights Organization (JHRO) and
Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB), 26 February 2016,
http://www.adhrb.org/2016/02/bahraini-sheikh-mohammed-khojasta-deported-after-citizenshiprevoked/
“Eminent Shia Cleric Stripped of Citizenship, Faces Deportation,” ADHRB, BIRD, BCHR, JHRO, and ECDHR,
20
June
2016,
http://www.adhrb.org/2016/06/eminent-shia-cleric-stripped-citizenship-facesdeportation/
“NGOs Condemn Imprisonment and Nationality Revocation of Photographer Sayed Ahmed al-Mousawi,”
ADHRB, BCHR, BIRD, Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and Index on Censorship, 25 November 2015,
http://www.adhrb.org/2015/11/ngos-condemn-imprisonment-and-nationality-revocation-ofphotographer-sayed-ahmed-al-mousawi/
“Stop Revoking Citizenships – BIRD Publishes Full Documentation,” BIRD, 10 February 2016,
http://birdbh.org/2016/02/revoked-citizenship/