{"id":49379,"date":"2026-04-27T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49379"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:00:32","slug":"bahrain-revokes-citizenship-of-69-people-for-glorifying-or-sympathising-with-iranian-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=49379","title":{"rendered":"Bahrain revokes citizenship of 69 people for &#8216;glorifying or sympathising with&#8217; Iranian attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 69 people over what it described as sympathy with Iran&#8217;s hostile acts \u200band collaboration with foreign entities, the kingdom&#8217;s interior ministry said \u200cin a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that the 69 people included accused individuals and their family members, and that they were all of non-Bahraini origin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bahraini nationality has \u200bbeen revoked from those individuals for glorifying or sympathising with the \u200bhostile Iranian acts, or engaging in contacts with external parties,&#8221; \u2060the ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Bahraini citizenship revoked from 69 peoplehttps:\/\/t.co\/nhNTnajoh0<br \/>\n\u2014 Ministry of Interior (@moi_bahrain) April 27, 2026<\/p>\n<p>It said the revocations had been carried out in \u200baccordance with royal directives from King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and \u200bwere based on Article 10\/3 of the Bahraini Nationality Law. The article provides for the revocation of citizenship in cases of &#8220;causing harm to the interests of the kingdom \u200bor acting in a manner that contradicts the duty of loyalty to \u200bit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Iran looking into Trump&#8217;s request for negotiations: FM Araghchi<\/p>\n<p>The interior ministry said the competent authorities were &#8220;continuing to study and review&#8221; who deserves \u200cBahraini \u2060citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, advocacy director at the Britain-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD), condemned the move, calling it &#8220;the beginning of a dangerous era of repression&#8221; and saying the decisions were &#8220;imposed without legal safeguards or any \u200bright of appeal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>BIRD \u200bsaid it was \u2060the first such revocation of citizenship in Bahrain since 2019. Between 2012 and 2019, Bahrain revoked the citizenship \u200bof at least 990 nationals, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Iran fired \u200bat targets \u2060in Bahrain and other Gulf Arab states where the United States\u00a0has military bases after the US\u00a0and Israel launched a war against Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Bahrain&#8217;s \u2060Global \u200bCommunication Office did not immediately respond to \u200ba request for comment on the case and on the institute&#8217;s statement.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of 69 people over what it described as sympathy with Iran&#8217;s hostile acts \u200band collaboration with foreign entities, the kingdom&#8217;s interior ministry said \u200cin a statement. The ministry said that the 69 people included accused individuals and their family members, and that they were all of non-Bahraini origin. &#8220;The Bahraini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}