Bangkok, Oct. 29 -- Thailand has revoked the citizenship of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, the American-born head of the Chabad movement in the country. The government said he went on travelling on his US passport for years after he became a naturalised Thai.

The Interior Ministry order was signed on Wednesday, October 28, by Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who also holds the interior portfolio. It said Kantor had entered and left Australia 16 times on his American nationality, most recently on January 26 this year.

The ministry said this broke a condition Kantor had accepted when he applied to become a Thai citizen.

Knew the condition: Thai authorities

According to the notice, Kantor got Thai nationality through naturalisation under S...