Rights groups call on F1 to disclose human rights articles in F1 contracts amid concerns over ‘sportswashing’ in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia

ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #441
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** Rights groups call on F1 to disclose human rights articles in F1 contracts amid concerns over ‘sportswashing’ in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia
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F1 told to “meet victims” and use “all available leverage” to demand the release of political prisoners in Bahrain
* Ahead of the commencement of the 2023 Formula One (F1) season which begins this weekend in Bahrain, a coalition of 21 rights groups and Trade Unions have written ([link removed]) to Stefano Domenicali, the CEO of F1 to call for urgent disclosure of human rights articles in F1 contracts.

* 21 NGOs including the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) and Human Rights Watch are seeking clarification after the F1 CEO revealed in a recent interview ([link removed]) that F1 contracts contain articles permitting the withdrawal of the sport from host countries if F1 was not satisfied “with the way human rights issues have developed in a country”. Rights groups are now calling on Mr Domencali to disclose these articles.


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** Profile in perscution
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** Ammar Abdulghani Abdulla
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Ammar Abdulghani Abdulla is a Bahraini student who was warrantlessly arrested in 2017, and has been subjected to multiple human rights violations on multiple occasions, including torture and unfair trial. He was charged in multiple cases and is currently serving his sentence at Jau prison. Since August 2022, Ammar has been placed in isolation among 13 of his fellow prisoners, where they are being subjected to more severe violations.

In 2014, Ammar was pursued and arrested for about six months when he was still only in elementary school. In 2015 and until his arrest in 2017, he was wanted for political cases. On 26 June 2017, Ammar was chased by officers from the Ministry of Interior, including riot police and security police forces, as well as Criminal Investigations Directorate officers, and arrested from al-Sanabis area. Authorities did not present an arrest warran,t but many summons were previously sent for him, and his house was raided many times. His was subjected to an enforced disappearance, and his family did not know about his arrest until two days later, when he called to inform them about it.

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