Kuwait

Kuwait handles slavery cases as labour or immigration offences and deports migrant women who flee abuse, a UN expert found.

Kuwait detained US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin for 52 days, then revoked his and his sisters' citizenship days after a judge acquitted him of the lead charge

Kuwait has stripped at least 50,000 people of citizenship since 2024; rights groups say a 2026 decree leaves limited avenues for appeal

Kuwait revoked the citizenship of 1,266 people by six emiri decrees on 26 April 2026, after a new law treating nationality decisions as sovereign acts