Jawad Fairooz () is a human rights defender and former Bahraini Member of the

Council of Representatives (Bahrain) The Council of Representatives (''Majlis an-nuwab''), sometimes translated as the "Chamber of Deputies", is the name given to the lower house of the Bahraini National Assembly, the national legislative body of Bahrain. The council was created ...

, rendered stateless in 2011. Whilst in exile in the United Kingdom, Fairooz became the chairman of Salam for Democracy and Human Rights (Salam DHR). He founded Salam for Democracy and Human Rights in 2015.

Work as a member of parliament

Fairooz was first elected as a member of parliament for the

Northern Governorate The Northern Governorate () is one of the four governorates of Bahrain. It includes parts of the former municipalities of Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah, Al Mintaqah al Wusta, Al Mintaqah al Shamaliyah, Jidd Haffs and Madinat Hamad. Settlemen ...

in the

2006 Bahraini general election General elections were held in Bahrain in November and December 2006 to elect the forty members of the Council of Representatives (Bahrain), Council of Representatives. The first round of voting was held on 25 November, with a second round on 2 ...

, and re-elected in 2010, as a member of the

Al Wefaq Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society (; ), sometimes shortened to simply Al-Wefaq, was a Shi'a Bahraini political party, that operates clandestinely after being ordered by the highest court in Bahrain to be dissolved and liquidated. Although from ...

political party. During his time as an MP, Fairooz was chairman of the Public Utilities & Environmental Committee. He served as a member of parliament until the withdrawal of the Al Wefaq parliamentary bloc in 2011.

Statelessness and Exile in the UK

Following the

2011 Bahraini uprising The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the mainly Shia and some Sunni Bahraini opposition primarily from 2011 until 2014. The protests were inspired by the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and prote ...

and the withdrawal of the Al Wefaq parliamentary bloc in 2011, Fairooz was detained on 2 May alongside

Matar Matar Matar Ebrahim Ali Matar (also spelled Mattar Mattar; ; born 3 May 1976) is a Bahraini politician of the Al Wefaq party who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from October 2010 until his resignation in early 2011. Born in the village of Al Da ...

. On 6 November 2012, whilst in the United Kingdom, Fairooz was stripped of his nationality and rendered stateless, alongside 30 other Bahraini nationals, deemed to have caused "damage to state security". In 2011, Fairooz became Chairman of Salam for Democracy and Human Rights (Salam DHR), an NGO formed following the Bahraini uprising. Salam DHR works to influence governmental representatives, to increase awareness of human rights and democracy issues in the Middle East, and works with human rights defenders such as Ebtisam al Saegh.

References

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