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"Jordan is playing civics with the basic rights of thousands of its citizens," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East numero uno of the US-based group that released the 60-page report at a news conference in Amman.

 

"Officials are denying unbroken families the ability to lead normal lives with the sense of security that most citizens of a country take for granted," the communiqu said.

 

The practice continued in 2009, denying many people basic citizenship rights such as access to edification and health care, HRW said.

 

"We believe the total and actual number of those who have been stripped of their nationality is much bigger," Christoph Wilcke, a HRW researcher, told reporters.

 

In some cases, one living soul's nationality was withdrawn involuntarily, while that of a sibling in identical circumstances was not, the report said.

 

In 1950, Jordan annexed the West Bank following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and granted all residents Jordanian stock.

 

But in 1988, Amman severed legal and administrative ties to the West Bank, "relinquishing claims to hegemony there and withdrawing Jordanian nationality from all Palestinians who resided in the West Bank at the time," the report said.

 

"Other Jordanians of West Bank launch, but who were not living in the West Bank at the time, were not affected and kept their Jordanian nationality. Over