On Monday, the Supreme Committee for Nationality Investigation in Kuwait issued a decision depriving Hakim Al-Mutairi, who has been in Turkey for years, of losing his citizenship, following the issuance of sentences against him of up to life imprisonment in connection with the case of leaks by former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi.
The Supreme Committee for Nationality Investigation based its decision on Article 11 of the Kuwaiti Nationality Law, which stipulates that a citizen who obtains the nationality of another country loses his Kuwaiti nationality.
Last December, the media raised news about the arrest of Hakim Al-Mutairi by the Turkish authorities, and he later tweeted on the “X” platform, announcing that the decision to arrest him had been cancelled.
The official newspaper, Kuwait Al-Youm, published the decision to lose Al-Mutairi’s citizenship, and the decision included the loss of it from others who had no relation to him.
Article (11) of the Kuwaiti Nationality Law stipulates that: “A Kuwaiti loses his nationality if he voluntarily naturalizes himself to a foreign nationality. His Kuwaiti wife does not lose her nationality unless she accepts his nationality, and his minor children lose their Kuwaiti nationality if they enter into their father’s new nationality in accordance with the law pertaining to this nationality, and they have To announce to the Minister of Interior that they will choose their Kuwaiti nationality within the two years following their reaching the age of majority.”
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