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Faisal Fulad


Faisal Hassan Fulad is an international Human Rights Activist and he was a member of Kingdom of Bahrain's upper chamber of parliament, the Consultative Council, since 1996. Fulad was appointed to parliament by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa from 1996 to 2010.

Fulad is a Union activist since 1975 and founder of the General Federation of Bahraini Workers, he was the head of the General Committee for Bahrain Workers from 1996 to 1998 and chairman of the Labor joint committee for Gulf Air from 1996 to 2001, and he is Human Rights activist and a founder with Houda Nonoo of the local group, the Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) (an organisation described as "government supported" by a leaked cable.) and Global group, The Gulf European Center for Human Rights (GECHR), where he stands as Secretary-General, His vocal advocacy includes issues such as women’s rights, the formal scrapping of the death penalty and labour rights for national and migrant workers. Recently, he is leading a lobby to establish a human right committee in the upper chamber of parliament.

Fulad, founded in 2015, "the global campaign against Iranian regime terrorism" The goal is to form a global alliance to denounce and expose the Iranian terrorist and make -led private international trial after agreement 5+1 between the regime and the countries of the six major role of the Iranian regime and its agents specific to the region in the broadcast, financing and dissemination of terrorism in (Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Bahrain ) and others.

In May 2006, Fulad became the first ever Shura Council member to be suspended. Sixteen fellow Shura Council members submitted a complaint to the chairman claiming that Fulad repeatedly insulted the members during sessions. Fulad was subsequently suspended for two weeks and docked pay.

Fulad has been accused by his colleagues of being a narcissist. In April 2006, Shura Council member Khalid Al Shareef told Fulad: "All you care about is having your name appear in newspapers next day, without you really knowing what your mouth says."

Another senior Council member told the Gulf Daily News:

In September 2006, Fulad was implicated in the Bandargate scandal, accused of receiving BD500 (USD 1,326) per month from the head of the scandal, Ahmed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa. The alleged plot aimed to instigate sectarian strife and maintain the dominance of the ruling Sunni community over the majority Shia.


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