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F1 accused of sending 'appalling message' over Bahrain Grand Prix
Formula 1 has been accused by human rights groups of sending "an appalling message" over abuses allegedly related to the Bahrain Grand Prix. Coming just over three weeks before this year's race in Manama, the criticism concerns the jailing of activist Najah Yusuf. Last month, 17 campaign organisations wrote to F1 management urging them to put pressure on Bahrain. They said she was jailed over criticism of the race, which authorities deny. Protest groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Bahrain Institute for Rights & Democracy (Bird), claimed that Yusuf had been given a three-year sentence because she protested against the 2017 race. However, in correspondence seen by the BBC,...
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