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Stateless Arabs, known as bidoons, protest to demand citizenship and other basic rights in Jahra, 31 miles northwest of Kuwait City on Monday before Kuwaiti riot police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse.
Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP - Getty Images
Kuwaiti riot police detain a stateless Arab, known as bidoon, during a protest to demand citizenship and other basic rights in Jahra, 50 kms (31 miles) northwest of Kuwait City, on Monday.
Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP - Getty Images
Stateless Arabs, known as bidoons, run for cover as riot police throw tear gas to disperese the protesters demanding citizenship and other basic rights in Jahra on Monday.
For more about this protest by stateless people known as bidoons (sometimes spelled bedoun, but distinct from Bedouin) in Kuwait, here's a story from the Khaleej Times. An excerpt:
Kuwait launched a crackdown on the bidoons in 2000, depriving them of health care, education and jobs in a bid to force them to produce their actual nationalities.
The stateless claim they are Kuwaiti citizens who have been denied nationality while the government insists that a large number of them hold nationalities of other countries.
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