Qatar: Families Arbitrarily Stripped of Citizenship

(Beirut, May 12, 2019) – Qatar’s decision to arbitrarily strip families from the Ghufran clan of their citizenship has left some members still stateless 20 years later and deprived of key human rights, Human Rights Watch said today. Expand The expired Qatari passport one stateless man showed Human Rights Watch researchers. The man said he has kept the passport since his citizenship was revoked in 1996. © 2019 Private Stateless members of the Ghufran clan are deprived of their rights to decent work, access to health care, education, marriage and starting a family, owning property, and…

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