A Human Rights organization from Geneva: lifting the immunity of Dashti raises the concern of the international community
A Human Rights organization from Geneva: lifting the immunity of Dashti raises the concern of the international community
Board of Trustees in the "International Council Supporting fair Trial and Human Rights in Geneva, (ICSFT)" issued a statement from Geneva condemned the targeting of human rights activist and head of the organization lawyer Dr Abdul Hamid Dashti in Kuwait because of his legal positions, the Council told:
The permission given by the Kuwaiti government to prosecute President of the (CSFT) Council before its courts on charges of "defense of human rights in Bahrain," is a crime against human rights and therefore we demand that the State of Kuwait to back down from this error, which is a violation of international conventions signed by Kuwait and was committed to them.
"The statement considered :" The lifting of immunity in the Kuwaiti parliament of MP Dr. Dashti is a bad turning point in human rights record in Kuwait, "the statement noted" that Dr. Dashti is a lawyer and President of the "ICSFT" Council, and therefore has the right to raise one's voice in cases involving human rights in any country in the world because he has international immunity entrusted to him by the legitimacy of United Nations human rights and the laws binding to member states, "said the Board of Trustees in their statement" that our Council condemns the case against their President demanding Kuwait State which is proven by its commitment to legal high standards in dealing with personal freedoms to reconsider the extent of the right of their MP to operate from his legal and humanitarian position, as guaranteed by the United Nations and international law, especially as it is a signatory to the Universal Declaration on the Protection of Human Rights Defenders in 1998, and Kuwait has to take the necessary measures to comply with its obligations and the protection of those Parliament members, including MP Abdulhameed Dashti otherwise we will be forced to step up position internationally within the United Nations and the means of global media to handle the issue of lawyer Dashti and bring it to its logical conclusion by closing the file because what he is doing in the field of human rights is not a crime.
