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. 37

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