A BAHRAINI legislator has vowed to take further legal action against controversial Kuwaiti MP Abdulhameed Dashti, who reportedly fled to Syria this week.
Jamal Buhassan has already lodged 10 lawsuits against Mr Dashti in Kuwaiti courts, along with filing complaints in London and the UN headquarters in New York.
He will now contact the Free Syrian Lawyers Association to file another set of lawsuits against Mr Dashti in Damascus.
The complaints include interfering in Bahrain’s internal affairs, inciting hatred and division among Bahrainis, calls to topple the government and continued support to terrorists in
Bahrain.
Mr Dashti is wanted by Bahrain for unlawfully collecting funds and distributing them to convicted rioters and their families.
The Lower Criminal Court found him guilty of the charge and sentenced him to two years in prison in absentia in December last year.
Bahrain’s Public Prosecution has approached Interpol to arrest him.
Mr Dashti was also stripped of his immunity last week for offensive and aggressive comments made against the GCC, in particular Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
“Dashti will not rest and even if he is hiding in Mars, he will pay for all of the damages he has done in the Arab and Islamic region, now or
later, he will be followed,” Mr Buhassan told the GDN yesterday.
“His immunity was lifted, but officially such procedures need paperwork, and from here he fled to Switzerland on medical excuses, and then went to London and from there he went to Damascus two days ago.
“His social media pictures clearly show that he is fully fit and is capable of walking around, giving talks and even socialising in Damascus including meeting President Bashar Al Assad.
“Syrian lawyers and judges are honest and sincere, Syrian people are in general righteous and for that I am planning to file cases through the Free Syrian Lawyers Association in Damascus.
Lawsuits
“I am also willing to attend proceedings against him.”
Mr Buhassan said sources close to Mr Dashti have informed him that he was still unsure whether to return to Kuwait City.
“In Kuwait my lawsuits await him, alongside lawsuits by the Saudi Embassy in Kuwait City, several Saudi nationals, and soon the UAE Embassy, besides the Kuwaiti Public Prosecution – he knows that if he goes back, is going to sit in jail forever,” he said.
“If he comes back to any GCC country he will be caught and I am planning to make things hard for him with new cases at Bahrain’s Public Prosecution as well.
“Possibly the Interpol can help, but Kuwait has to declare him wanted first because at the moment he is not.
“He has to be questioned first and that’s not happening
as he is sitting on (Syrian President Bashar Al Assad) Al
Assad’s lap.”
The GDN reported in September that Mr Dashti
allegedly attacked Mr Buhassan during the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, snatched his phone and smashed.
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