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Two sisters seeking to become Indian citizens are currently stateless after failing to procure a document that could prove that they have renounced their citizenship of Pakistan.

Once he was captured, Mr Ahn had several chances to avoid prison - he was asked to sign documents renouncing the North and its communist ideology, which was called "conversion".

That is the well-worn path of sinners come to confession, or, in secular terms, Whittaker Chambers renouncing his allegiance to Stalin.

James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the killing, but later renounced his plea.

The letter urged "all relevant parties to publicly withdraw from the plan, renounce it and refrain from carrying it out".