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Australia has made a number of their citizens stateless recently, cancelling their citizenships without trial in violation of UN conventions on statelessness.

Australia has made a number of their citizens stateless recently, cancelling their citizenships without trial in violation of UN conventions on statelessness. Among the developed western nations of the world, USA is a bottom-rung country when it comes to human rights, what with assassinating their own citizens in the middle east, torturing prisoners and keeping them locked up for decades without trial, not to mention all the abuses on the domestic front. Australia is one rung above USA.

josephcsible 5y ago
> Australia has made a number of their citizens stateless recently Who, specifically, did the Australian government revoke the citizenship of who wasn't also a citizen of another country?
- markdown 5y ago
  Neil Prakash is one I'm familiar with, but there've been many others who've had their citizenships cancelled. Prakash was born in Australia, radicalised in Australia, and became a terrorist in Australia. He went off to the Middle East and did bad shit. Australia wanted to wash their hands of the hurt they'd unleashed on the world, so they claimed that he was a (dual) citizen of Fiji, and they cancelled his Australian citizenship. Prakash's Aussie father was Fiji-born and may (this isn't clear) have still been a Fiji citizen at the time he fathered Prakash in Australia. However, Fiji does not automatically grant citizenship to children of Fijians born overseas. Their parents need to apply for their citizenship, and Prakash's father never did this because of course he had left Fiji and made Australia his home. So Prakash was not born in Fiji, never gained Fiji citizenship, and has never stepped foot in Fiji. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/23/peter-duttons-push-to-use-secret-evidence-to-revoke-citizenship-condemned https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/23/peter... He was an Australian citizen, and rather than deal with their problem, they made him stateless.
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josephcsible 5y ago

> Australia has made a number of their citizens stateless recently Who, specifically, did the Australian government revoke the citizenship of who wasn't also a citizen of another country?

markdown 5y ago
Neil Prakash is one I'm familiar with, but there've been many others who've had their citizenships cancelled. Prakash was born in Australia, radicalised in Australia, and became a terrorist in Australia. He went off to the Middle East and did bad shit. Australia wanted to wash their hands of the hurt they'd unleashed on the world, so they claimed that he was a (dual) citizen of Fiji, and they cancelled his Australian citizenship. Prakash's Aussie father was Fiji-born and may (this isn't clear) have still been a Fiji citizen at the time he fathered Prakash in Australia. However, Fiji does not automatically grant citizenship to children of Fijians born overseas. Their parents need to apply for their citizenship, and Prakash's father never did this because of course he had left Fiji and made Australia his home. So Prakash was not born in Fiji, never gained Fiji citizenship, and has never stepped foot in Fiji. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/23/peter-duttons-push-to-use-secret-evidence-to-revoke-citizenship-condemned https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/feb/23/peter... He was an Australian citizen, and rather than deal with their problem, they made him stateless.
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