Three so-called ISIS brides expected to be charged after arriving back in Australia from Syria. Two of the women will be charged with slavery offences.

Children are probably the easiest minds to re-shape, if you reach them young enough and stay consistent with it. Anybody *can* change. It's up to the state to actually provide those resources though. Which is probably expensive. So treating them like irredeemable monsters doesn't help, I think.

Probably because you and the comment you are responding to seem to be both misunderstanding someone saying the odds of them coming out of it aren’t great as just “punish the children for their parents decisions” lol

That's one of the points of contention. The British govt argues that she has Bangladeshi citizenship, which is why they can revoke her citizenship without running afoul of international law. (It'd be illegal, under international law, if it made her stateless.) But Bangladesh said that she did not have Bangladeshi citizenship at that time. Her parents emigrated from Bangladesh so it seems she would be *eligible* for citizenship there, but it wasn't automatically granted, she'd need to apply for it. That was close enough for British courts, and her British citizenship has been revoked since 2019. She's been living in a refugee camp since then so I doubt she's had a chance to apply for Bangladeshi citizenship - and since it's unlikely Bangladesh is gonna go out of their way to make that happen, and I don't see an easy way for her to get to a consulate, it seems like she's technically stateless, sort of, more or less. She's also married to an IS fighter with a Dutch passport, so she's suggested she might apply for Dutch citizenship, but it's unclear if her marriage would be accepted by Dutch courts as she was underage at the time. I doubt it would be a smooth process either way.

They paid a fine and I became a citizen (was issued documents). Immigrated to Canada, became a Canadian citizen, technically lost Chinese citizenship, but kept the documents anyway.

Definitely not **zero** consequences. There are watchdog organizations keeping an eye on how countries behave in this regard and rating them accordingly. Countries who could be potential partners and companies who may have invested in your country may instead avoid you if your rating isn't high enough. You can also scare away tourism.

Leaving people stateless is not a vague human rights issue. It clashes with the absolute authority of nations. You open the gate for more sovereign citizen and similar stuff. No nation wants that and therefore can't allow the idea of statelessness to be even considered.

Have you seen the diplomatic fallout the U.S. has with their "closest ally" E.U.?