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FOM affirms commitment to human rights before controversial Bahrain GP

Bahrain continues to prove one of Formula One's most contentious hosts, with outings at Sakhir in the post-Arab Spring era accompanied by anti-government protests, sometimes violent, on the race's sidelines. As the minority Sunni Bahraini government continues to crack down on largely Shia dissenters in the country, Amnesty International condemned the Bahrain Grand Prix.  'As the world's eyes fall on Bahrain during the Grand Prix this weekend, few will realise that the international images the authorities have attempted to project of the country as a progressive reformist state committed to human rights masks a far more sinister truth,' Amnesty's Middle East and North Africa deputy...
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