Furthering"Because international law limits governments from rendering people stateless, the proposals linking citizenship to terrorism have been largely applied to dual nationals, said Tanya Mehra, a senior research fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism at The Hague. 'But then the question is, aren’t you making a distinction on the basis of whether someone has one or two nationalities, and thus creating different classes of citizens?'
"The law leaves dual nationals vulnerable to being punished twice for the same crime, if they serve prison time and then also face having their citizenship revoked, she said. 'It’s great media optics to say that you’re taking a strong stance against crime by depriving them of their nationality,' said Mehra. 'But you have to really look more carefully at whether or not you’re violating their human rights.'”
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