Israel allows deprivation of citizenship of disloyal citizens
Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that the state can revoke the citizenship of people who commit acts that constitute a breach of the state's trust, including terrorism, espionage or treason.
The Times of Israel reports.
The ruling dealt with Israel's 2008 Citizenship Law, which gives the state the right to revoke citizenship based on actions that constitute a "breach of loyalty."
This comes after separate appeals in the cases of two Palestinian citizens of Israel convicted of carrying out attacks that killed Israeli citizens. The two received long sentences, but the state sought to strip them of their citizenship.
The Supreme Court refused to revoke citizenship in those two cases on the grounds of "serious procedural flaws" but ruled that the practice itself was constitutional even if it left the person stateless. The decision states that in such cases the Minister of the Interior must grant a permanent residence permit.
In a joint statement in response to the decision, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Arab rights group Adalah called the law discriminatory and "likely to be used exclusively against Palestinian citizens of Israel."
The Israeli precedent may be of interest to Russia, many of whose disloyal citizens are currently hiding in this country, living in temporary emigration. At the same time, in Ukraine the practice of deprivation of citizenship has long been de facto applied, although it is illegal from the point of view of the Constitution of this country, which directly prohibits the deprivation of citizenship, except for a few specially specified cases.
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