Prawo międzynarodowe wobec możliwości pozbawienia obywatelstwa za działalność terrorystyczną

• Authors: Pączek Marcin

Title variants

EN

International law against the possibility of citizenship deprivation for terrorist activity

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Until recently, the question of citizenship deprivation for national security reasons had not attracted much attention among policymakers and international scholars. Things changed after some states had enacted or amended their laws so as to permit denationalization of their citizens engaged in terrorist activities at home or — which is more often the case — abroad. In most countries this shift was a response to the problem of “foreign terrorist fighters”, namely terrorist fighters who first leave their home country to join terrorist organizations abroad and then return. This article examines in detail the question of whether or not it is possible under international law to deprive a person of his/her citizenship because of involvement in terrorist activities. While answering this question affirmatively, the author wonders how far states can go in the exercise of citizenship deprivation powers and to what extent relevant norms and principles of international law limit state powers in this regard

Keywords

EN

deprivation of citizenship; foreign terrorist fighters; international law; arbitrariness; statelessness

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Przegląd Sejmowy
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 6(155)
• Pages: 81-98

Contributors

author

Pączek Marcin

• Dr, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Wydział Prawa i Administracji, Zakład Prawa Międzynarodowego i Prawa Europejskiego, [e-mail], ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1887-4630

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Identifiers

DOI

10.31268/PS.2019.80