Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Your government can kind of just take away your passport, trap you inside, and make it hard to get a passport elsewhere. By controlling your access to your own identity documentation.

It happens to little out-of-favor groups primarily.

But it's important to remember that power is there.
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Dash 11mo ago

The US did it to Bobby Fischer back in the early 2000s. He ended up spending months in a Japanese detention center. He was rescued by Iceland who stepped in and granted him citizenship. (He played his world championship match in Iceland back in the 70s). His crime was to be critical about Israel publically.

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Dash 11mo ago

I should add that his official crime was related to ignoring sanctions by playing chess in a sanctioned country. But that "crime" happened in the 90s and the US didn't go after him until he was critical of the regime post 9/11