This series started with a blog on the unusual case of a man from Western Sahara, a Sahrawi, begging a French court to treat him as stateless. The applicant argued that the occupying power in parts of Western Sahara – Morocco – imposed Moroccan nationality on him in violation of international law. Was he right? In the second blog in …
This blog is the first in a short series looking at citizenship, statelessness and the law on state occupation. I open the debate with the unusual case of a man from Western Sahara, a Sahrawi, who unsuccessfully begged a French court to treat him as stateless rather than as having Moroccan citizenship. Given the challenges of being stateless, what would …
