The UK Parliament adopted the controversial amendment granting new powers to the Home Secretary to withdraw British citizenship when she has “reasonable grounds for believing” that the person has acted in a way “seriously prejudicial to the vital interests” of the state. This comes after the bill was met by serious criticism as prejudicial to the vital principles of democracy and international law, by academics, MPs and human rights groups.

 

Read more from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism and from the New York Times.

Read our earlier news on the controversy.

Read the commentaries in Al Jazeera and New Statesman.

Read our news about similar policy in Austria here.