Pak Sahafat – Badkowit chess player Badr Al-Hajri has canceled the international Sunway Chess Tournament, which is currently being held in Spain, to avoid a confrontation with the Zionist regime.
According to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas, al-Hajri’s position has been taken in line with Kuwait’s firm stance to categorically reject any normalization of relations with the occupying regime in Jerusalem.
Al-Hajri is one of Kuwaiti chess champions who have participated in the Spanish International Chess Tournament with his teammate Hashem Khalid in the Kuwaiti national team.
In recent months, more Kuwaiti sports champions in various sports have refused to face Israeli players.
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Last January, Kuwaiti tennis player Mohammed al-Awadi refused to face an Israeli player in the semi-finals of the Under-14 International Tournament in Dubai.
Last year, three Kuwaiti athletes in various sports withdrew from competitions hosted by the Zionist regime hosted by the UAE.
Last May, the Kuwaiti National Assembly unanimously approved a draft law banning any action to normalize relations with the occupying regime in Jerusalem.
According to the Constitution of Kuwait, Israel is considered a hostile state and natural and legal persons in that country are prohibited from concluding contracts or transactions with organs or persons residing in the occupied territories or citizens of this regime or working in its organization. According to this law, they will be punished with life imprisonment or temporary imprisonment from 5 to 10 years and a fine.