Jawad Fairooz (Arabic: جواد فيروز غلوم فيروز) is a human rights defender and former Bahraini Member of the Council of Representatives (Bahrain), rendered stateless in 2011.
[3] During his time as an MP, Fairooz was chairman of the Public Utilities & Environmental Committee.
[4] He served as a member of parliament until the withdrawal of the Al Wefaq parliamentary bloc in 2011.
[5] On 6 November 2012, whilst in the United Kingdom, Fairooz was stripped of his nationality and rendered stateless,[6] alongside 30 other Bahraini nationals, deemed to have caused "damage to state security".
[8] Salam DHR works to influence governmental representatives, to increase awareness of human rights and democracy issues in the Middle East,[9] and works with human rights defenders such as Ebtisam al Saegh.