The UK Home Secretary Theresa May announced that she would ask the House of Commons to adopt a controversial amendment to the Immigration bill, which would allow her to withdraw the citizenship of terror suspects, even if this would render them stateless. The bill met strong public criticism, and the House of Lords had moved to refer it to a joint committee to reconsider it. 

Besides the obvious human rights issue, the bill raises concerns that it will be taken as precedent by other countries and Austria is considering the adoption of similar policy too.

 

Read more details in The Guardian and a commentary in The New Statesman.

Read our earlier news about the controversy in the House of Lords.

Read the brief of the Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association (ILPA) on the bill.

Read our news about the Austrian policy.