An urgent appeal regarding the withdrawal of nationalities of some UAE reforming scholars and preachers
We, in the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations (IIFSO),
received with great dismay and concern the media reports about the
withdrawal of national citizenships from a number of Emirati public
figures, scholars, preachers and reform advocates by the government of
the United Arab Emirates.
We
then shared a thought with many observers that there is something wrong
either in the news itself or a hasty bureaucratic action by state
employees has been already taken and would be corrected soon. We, and
some human rights organizations and freemen worldwide, waited a formal
denial to the news or that bureaucratic error being corrected, but
nothing happened until the release of this statement and therefore we
direct this letter to the following: