When Faisal checked in at Kuwait’s international airport late last year, he was a jet-setting young businessman with one of the Arab world’s strongest passports. But he never got on the plane, and when he left the airport, he was no longer Kuwaiti.
Faisal said he was temporarily detained before boarding and had his passport taken, becoming one of about 42,000 Kuwaitis to be stripped of their citizenship in just over six months.
The move to make thousands of citizens stateless is the latest in a series of backsliding moves that has…