Sheikh Sultan bin Suhaim said he holds Qatar’s former Emir Hamad Bin Khalifa responsible for his father’s death.

In his first sit down interview with any media outlet, Sheikh Sultan told Al Arabiya News Channel’s Turki al-Dakhil that he personally blames Hamad bin Khalifa responsible for poisoning his father, Sheikh Suhaim bin Hamad.

“We lost Sheikh Suhaim through treachery and betrayal and we can prove it in documents and evidence,” Sheikh Sultan told Al-Arabiya.

“I directly accuse Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa,” he said when asked who he thought was behind the assassination plot behind his father’s death in 1985.

Sheikh Suhaim bin Hamad bin Abdullah al-Thani was a member of the ruling family of Qatar who served as the country's first foreign minister. His brother, Khalifa bin Hamad al-Thani, was the emir of Qatar at the time.

His son, Sultan, became one of the first to publicly oppose from the current ruling family led by Emir Tamim Bin Hamad when several countries decided to sever ties with Qatar over its support and financing of terrorist groups and interfering in the internal affairs of neighboring countries.