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When your own government abandons you abroad

My country's embassy told me they cannot help me because I was detained while working for an international NGO that my government now considers hostile, and I don't know if I'm stateless or just abandoned.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're experiencing the brutal gap between citizenship on paper and protection in practice when state interests conflict.

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