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Bobby Fischer as well. He was stuck in Japan for months until receiving an emergency passport from the Icelandic government. That fact that this is legal is...
by valdiorn 6y ago
Bobby Fischer as well. He was stuck in Japan for months until receiving an emergency passport from the Icelandic government.
That fact that this is legal is... sketchy.
Same with Shamima Begum, for that matter.
- tyre 6y agoThe fact that what is legal? That a company can revoke a passport issued by itself? Seems pretty reasonable. Maybe people could disagree on specific examples, but the principle seems fine. US passports say in them that they can be revoked for a variety of reasons.
- adgjlsfhk1 6y agoIt has the problem that it violates the UN charter for human rights which says that nations may not make people nationless.
- BoysenberryPi 6y agoThey are not nationless. Revoking someone's passport is not revoking someone's citizenship. Snowden was and is still a US citizen.
- astrea 6y agoThe UN is a toothless exercise in futility, much like its predecessor.
- throwaway_kufu 6y agoTell that to Charles Taylor or Slobodan Milošević. As far as it’s predecessor my guess if you are referencing the League of Nations rather than the international military tribunals that conducted the Nuremberg Trials that hung 10 Nazi’s with ropes to short to break their necks and choked them to death.
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