Bahrain, Formula One racing and dictatorship

This video says about itself:

The martyr alHuajjairi.. Bahrain’s witness on torture and impunity

3 May 2013

The martyr [medical profesional] AbdulRasoul alHujjairi had disappeared to be found later thrown in a street with scars of brutal torture and assault all over his body.

The Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry chaired by international law expert Cherif Bassiouni documented in paragraph number 586 of its report that:

At 06:30, the body of Mr Abdulrasoul AlHujjairi was found in the vicinity of al-Askar Road in the Awali district. He was taken to BDF Hospital where he was pronounced dead. While the exact circumstances leading to this fatality are unclear, reports indicated that the deceased had gone missing around sunset the previous day. He suffered severe injuries all over his body and to his head caused by beatings.

From daily The Guardian in Britain:

Formula One 2015

Thursday 16 April 2015 00.04 BST

Amnesty warns human rights abuses ‘unabated’ before Bahrain Grand Prix

• Amnesty International report details ‘chilling’ crackdown on dissent
• ‘Notion that Bahrain respects freedom of expression is pure fiction’
• Leading Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab arrested for highlighting prison abuse

Formula One back in Bahrain amid heightened rights concerns: here.

Human rights and Formula One: here.

Glitz of Formula One must not divert attention from Bahrain’s jailed journalists: here.

Bahrain Human Rights Abuses: Amnesty International Report Says Country Maintains ‘Chilling Crackdown On Dissent’: here.

Government reforms put in place by Bahraini authorities in the wake of widespread anti-government protests four years ago have failed to end serious violations of human rights in the strategically important Gulf nation, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday: here.

HUMAN rights watchdog Amnesty International accused Bahraini authorities yesterday of continuing rights violations in a “chilling crackdown on dissent”: here.

On Monday 13th April, the Bahraini authorities carried out widespread arrests, some of which have been recognized as arbitrary. The arrests were followed by a statement made by the Minister of Information who said “the Interior Ministry shall face with law any calls or events that attempt to defame the international event and the interests of Bahrain before, during and after the Formula 1 race”. Bahrain is to hold the Formula 1 Grand Prix between the 17th and 19th of April 2015: here.

Bahrain: Constant judicial harassment of Ms. Ghada Jamsheer. The Observatory has been informed by reliable sources about the constant judicial harassment of Ms. Ghada Jamsheer, Head of the Women’s Petition Committee, an organisation which campaigns for the rights and dignity of women in the Shari’ah family courts: here.