Judge won’t summons Bahrain official

A judge has refused to issue a summons to force the Bahraini attorney general, who is in Ireland this week, to appear in a court in Dublin on charges of aiding and abetting torture.

Judge Grainne O’Neill heard an application by IT professional Jaafar Al-Husabi who is from Bahrain but now a UK national living in London. He said he was tortured in a Bahrain detention centre and he has amassed evidence which he claims proves his country’s attorney general knew it was going on.

He swore information and produced documents in a bid to convince the judge to issue a summons compelling the Bahraini attorney general Ali Bin Fadhul Al Buainain to appear before Dublin District Court.