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April 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The decision “gives Bahrain’s rulers the opportunity they are seeking to
obscure the seriousness of the country’s human rights situation,” HRW
said in a statement.
“Formula One promoters say their decision to race in Bahrain should not
be derailed by political considerations, but the ruling family will attempt
to portray Friday’s decision as a political statement of support for its
repressive policies,” said Tom Porteous, deputy programme director at
HRW.
“The FIA has played into the government’s narrative to gloss over
Bahrain’s continuing human rights crisis.”
The controversial Bahrain event has overshadowed the lead-up to the Shanghai
race, and many teams are believed to have grave concerns about the Gulf
event.
It was postponed last year after protests broke out against the government,
and was thought to be in jeopardy once again because of the more than
year-long demonstrations.
The FIA said in a statement on Friday that it was “satisfied” that
sufficient security was in place at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit to deter
protesters who say they will target the event.
The “Revolution of February 14” youth group has called for “three
days of rage” in Bahrain from April 20 to 22, and launched a campaign
on Twitter to cancel the Grand Prix.
Bahrain reiterated on Friday that the kingdom was safe.
“The FIA made the right decision,” Bahrain International Circuit
(BIC) chief executive Sheikh Salman bin Issa al-Khalifa told AFP.
HRW said Bahrain’s rulers had not fully carried out the key recommendations of
the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) into the “largely
peaceful pro-democracy protests in February-March 2011.”
Last year’s month-long protests centring on the now-demolished monument in
Pearl Square in Bahrain’s capital Manama left 35 people dead, including five
from torture, according to the BICI report into the unrest issued in
November.
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