Jawad to “Islam Times”: We wish the UN member states would take a decision the next time

He pointed out that “the statement that was issued today by 46 countries is not binding the Bahraini regime, but is a call to improve the human rights conditions in Bahrain only”, adding that “the statement is very important in content and form, for it illustrates the size of the violations that has been happening in Bahrain over the past years, but its recommendations are non-binding”.

He stressed that “the efforts of the legal representatives have value more than the statement that has been issued, and that the violations and the problem in Bahrain are also important more than the statement. In fact, the United Nations’ referendum is of great importance and must be put on the table to let the regime know along with the international community who is right and who is wrong. The problem of human rights in Bahrain is being added internationally to the major political problem, for which the protesters came out on February 14 three years ago”. 

Being asked by ‘Islam Times’ about the fact of trapping the Bahraini regime in the corridors of the United Nations, Jawad said: “When we say that the regime is trapped, we do not mean that the states imposed upon it a change through the United Nations, but the popular movement must mount, and this escalation must be physical on the ground to highlight again the basic issue of Bahrain, otherwise the recommendations issued by the Human Rights Council would be only recommendations to denounce and condemn without imposing a new reality on the regime to make it feel real danger. 

The human rights activist Jawad said that “the human rights work will continue to pressure, and the countries that are issuing condemnations against Bahrain in the Human Rights Council are probably issuing them because of the pressure imposed by major international human rights organizations, as well as because of the popular movement and the work of the lawyers. However, the human rights work is a cumulative work, is governed by international circumstances, and is possibly costly and difficult in many times.

The political action must take a new approach and must have new means, and I am convinced that the work is important and essential, but will not change the political reality in Bahrain. Yet, what must be done by the politicians is to put pressure at the level of the public to change the reality through new peaceful civil resisting means that have value as that of the day February 14, 2011.