Withdrawing Citizenship from UAE citizens…
a big violation to be repealed
The
government of the United Arab Emirates has withdrawn the citizenships
of six Emirati citizens who are public figures in their homeland
striving for better reforms. Depriving these citizens from their civil
rights of citizenship is being considered an unprecedented step and an
aggressive violation to the UAE commitments in the domain of human
rights.
Since
Friends of Humanity International Organization totally condemns this
decision, it confirms that such decision is unauthorized or legalized
locally or globally as it contradicts with the commitments of human and
civil rights that can never been justified.
This unjustified Decision has targeted the following UAE citizens:
- Ahmed Ghaith Al-Suwaidi
- Hassan Munif Al Jabri
- Hussein Munif Al Jabri
- Dr. Shahin Abdullah Al Hosni
- Dr. Ali Hussain Al Hammadi
- Muhammad Abdul-Raziq As-Siddiq
Meanwhile,
The UAE Official News Agency (WAM) has revealed via an official
resource in the General Department of Citizenship, Residency and Ports
that Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of UAE, has issued a
decree No. 2-1-7857 in December 4th 2011 that withdrew the UAE national
citizenship from the above mentioned citizens due to their “involvement
in dangerous activities against the Emirates Peace and Security”.
The
statement declared that those citizens were engaged in actions that
threat National Security and stability since years through their
suspicious relationship with suspicious individuals and organizations
that are enlisted in the UN black list of Combating Financing of
Terrorism.
But,
however, the enhancing impression uncovers that such a decision of
depriving and withdrawing Citizenship comes as a punishment step against
their Reforming Demands as well as their membership in an NGO
”Association for Reform and Social Guidance” whose doors were shut down
by Authorities and its activities have been restricted. Relatively, some
of those deprived citizens have filed some demands in a petition handed
to the leadership of the UAE which asks for more legislative reforms
and widening the authorities of the legislative in addition to calls for
enhancing accountability, transparency and fighting of corruption.
Hence,
The International Declaration of Human rights states in Article No. 15.
"Every person has the right to have a citizenship and it is not
authorized by anyway to deprive anybody or withdraw his/her national
citizenship." Moreover, the United Nations Convention 1954 on stateless
persons provides that "Authorities are not allowed to withdraw a
citizenship from any citizen except when this person has another
citizenship in another country." "The contracted state with such citizen
is not allowed to decide denaturalization except by the order of law
which grants every single citizen the right of fair trial before a court
or another independent body." As well, the convention states: "It is
not allowed to any authority to deprive or withdraw a national
citizenship from any citizens due to ethnical, racial, religious or
political causes." (Articles: 7, 8, 9).
Hereby,
Friends of Humanity International asks the UAE Authorities to review
this illegal decision that represents a big violation which can never
been accepted or justified worldwide. The organization also calls upon
the leadership of the UAE and president Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zaid Al
Nahyan, his vice-president Shaikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum , the Federal Supreme Council
of Emirates Governors and The federal government to quickly handle this
abuse and cancel any unjustified decision issued in this regard that
deprive UAE citizens from their national civil rights.
Vienna, January 4, 2012
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