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JumpCrisscross 17 hours ago

> that is pretty serious violation of human rights

I don’t think it’s that hyperbolic. But I agree that the existence of debts shouldn’t invalidate one’s right to a passport.

(The counter argument is that passports are a privilege and citizenship a bundle of privileges and duties. Why should the country have the burden of passporting someone abroad who as abandoned it.)

Paracompact 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-huma...

"Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country."

Passports shouldn't be a privilege, and violation of the universal declaration of human rights is pretty serious.

JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> violation of the universal declaration of human rights is pretty serious

No, it isn’t. It isn’t even legally binding. (And obviously couldn’t be. It would invalidate incarceration and conscription, for example.)

Jensson 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

People don't have that right when they are criminals, prisoners don't get to leave their country etc and this is essentially that.

throwuttfj 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Education is also a privilege. And universities should have no power to block people from leaving a country. It is like Emirates preventing people to go home, because of unpaid speeding tickets. Or Qatar confiscating passports of Indian workers.

JumpCrisscross 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> universities should have no power to block people from leaving a country

They don’t.

throwuttfj 17 hours ago | parent [-]

They do, state owned education