In kuwait, one of the major countries in the Middle East, the citizenship of several thousand people has now been suddenly denied. This incident has created a lot of excitement. Why were several thousand people denied citizenship overnight? What is the background to this? Let us see who is most affected by this. kuwait is a small country in the Middle East. It is located halfway between iraq and Saudi Arabia. The total population of this country is less than 5 million. Even then, most of them are from other countries. That is, like other Middle Eastern countries, people come here from various countries of the world for work. Similarly, there are several hundred thousand people in Kuwait.
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Meanwhile, around 37,000 people in kuwait have suddenly been stripped of their citizenship. So many people have had their citizenship revoked overnight. Most of them are said to be women. Lama is the woman who suddenly lost her citizenship. Lama, who was a Kuwaiti citizen until the previous day, is now a stateless person. Initially, there was no official communication about the revocation of citizenship. Lama, who was out, tried to pay with her credit card. However, it was not accepted. Upon investigation, it was revealed that her bank account had been temporarily frozen as her citizenship acquired through marriage had been revoked.

Regarding this, she said, "It was a shock to me. I have been living in kuwait for the last 20 years. I have been a law-abiding citizen by following all the rules. When that happens, it is not right to suddenly say one day that you are not a Kuwaiti citizen." Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah came to power in december 2023. Immediately after he came to power, he took various measures in Kuwait. He dissolved the parliament in some cases and announced the temporary suspension of some parts of the constitution. The Emir also promised to make kuwait clean for its true people and free from impurities.

It was only after that that he became serious about such measures. His position is that kuwait belongs only to those who have blood relations with Kuwaiti citizens. Because of this, he has decided to cancel citizenship acquired through other means, including marriage. This will help reshape Kuwaiti identity and reduce the number of voters. In the past few months alone, 37,000 people, including 26,000 women, have had their citizenship revoked. This is the officially announced number. However, international media say that the real number is many times higher. Action is being taken against those who obtained citizenship through marriage and those who had dual citizenship.

This is not the first time that kuwait has suddenly revoked its citizenship. This has happened a few times before in history. But this is the first time that so many thousands of people have had their citizenship revoked at once. kuwait already has about 100,000 stateless people without citizenship. These 100,000 were denied citizenship when it gained independence from british rule in 1961. Now that number has increased.
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Sowmiya Sriram

26/05/2025 02:20 PM