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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

British Muslims’ citizenship reduced to ‘second-class’ status, says thinktank

Muslim friends walking.
Muslim friends walking. The report cited the Prevent programme, which has been dogged by claims of being a cover to spy on Muslim communities. Photograph: MBI/Alamy

British Muslims have had their citizenship reduced to “second-class” status as a result of recently extended powers to strip people of their nationality, a thinktank has claimed.

The Institute of Race Relations (IRR) says the targets of such powers are almost exclusively Muslims, mostly of south Asian heritage, embedding discrimination and creating a lesser form of citizenship.

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