Abdul-Hamid Dashti

Abdul-Hamid Abbas Hussein Dashti, also known as Abdulhameed Dashti, is a lawyer and former member of the Kuwait National Assembly. He graduated from the Kuwaiti Military College in 1974, where he started his career as a pilot and held several positions in the Kuwait Air Force until he resigned from military service in 1982. In 2015, his legal immunity was revoked by the Kuwaiti National Assembly and he was subsequently tried and convicted for insulting the Kuwaiti judiciary and insulting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, for which he was sentenced in absentia to 14 years. On December 20, 2017, a new ruling was issued to imprison him for an additional 5 years, bringing the total prison sentences against him to 55 years, most of which were issued in absentia because he was not in Kuwait.