This is mental.
... 42,000 Kuwaitis... stripped of their citizenship in just over six months... The move to make thousands of citizens stateless is the latest in a series of backsliding moves that has jeopardised Kuwait’s claim to be the only state with a semblance of democracy in the Gulf... Every week for months, the government published vast lists of newly stateless people, which Kuwaitis feverishly scanned for their own names, or those of friends and family... In a country with just 1.5mn citizens, the revocations affected nearly 3 per cent of the entire population, meaning most Kuwaitis knew a family that was affected...
Kuwait has stripped nationality from 42,000 people after suspending the region’s only parliament last year
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