Stateless and forced into exile, Bahraini families stuck in limbo (opens in new tab)

On the same day, he got a call from authorities asking him to turn in his official documents and those of his infant. In the next days, Ali, 31, his daughter and his wife were forced to leave for Iran, never to return. He tried to fly to the United Kingdom, was denied entry in Oman and spent weeks in Azerbaijan and Georgia trying to secure entry to Europe, to no avail. So he ended up in Iran, to where Bahrain had banished him and many of the others, via a third country. Manama cited a royal d...