Legal Framework

Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness — Article 8

Prohibits states from depriving a person of nationality if it would render them stateless, with narrow exceptions for fraud in obtaining nationality. This is a core safeguard against arbitrary denationalization.

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Secret Cameroon Deportation Agreement and Torture of Deportees

The US secretly deported 17 people from 9 African countries to Cameroon under a covert agreement. Deportees were immediately beaten by gendarmes, arbitrarily detained, and subjected to torture. …

  • Under a secret agreement, the US deported 17 people from 9 African countries (Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra …
  • Deportees included asylum seekers with court-ordered protections against deportation and at least one stateless person.