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"Our right, not a privilege" - Citizenship and the Nationality and Borders Bill
We explained why we've taken part in the @IMIX_UK campaign to #SayNoToClause9 of the Bill.
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"Our right, not a privilege" - Citizenship and the Nationality and Borders Bill
We explained why we've taken part in the @IMIX_UK campaign to #SayNoToClause9 of the Bill.
Click here to read, and share the thread below gmiau.org/borders-bill-c…
Clause 9 will make it possible for the Home Secretary to deprive people of citizenship *without notifying them*. This is the most recent sinister development in the ramping-up of the government's powers to deprive citizenship over the last 20 years.
Depriving someone of their citizenship strips them of their identity and rights, often in the only place they have ever called home. It's been described as “worse than torture”. Here @NosheenIqbal gives more background to the UK's use of these powers: theguardian.com/news/audio/202…
