‘My citizenship was everything to me. Now I am nobody’

I’ve spent quite a lot of time in recent months working on a story, which was finally published in today’s Independent. There is a fuller version on OpenDemocracy.

The UK is stripping British terror suspects of their nationality. This normally happens when an individual is out of the country, stranding them in a foreign land with zero protection and negligible appeal rights. I spoke with one of the 41 people who have had their British citizenship revoked.

Two years ago, he was working and living in southeast London. He sent money home to his wife and kids in Pakistan. He’s now stuck in the tribal areas of Pakistan, without work or the means to support his family. He fears he will be killed by the Taliban.

All of the work on the deprivation of citizenship by the team at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism can be found here.