LONDON : Lewis Hamilton and other Formula One drivers can help steer the sport away from a 'moral vacuum' by speaking out at season-opening races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, human rights campaigners said on Tuesday.Paul Scriven, a member of Britain's House of Lords, told a news conference organised by th
LONDON : Lewis Hamilton and other Formula One drivers can help steer the sport away from a 'moral vacuum' by speaking out at season-opening races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, human rights campaigners said on Tuesday.
"There is another road that some drivers seem to be taking... who understand they can use their platform and their sport not just for sport's sake but for good and for change and that they cannot ignore the human rights abuses in the country that they are driving in." Hamilton, who said in 2021 that Formula One cannot ignore issues in the countries it visits, has vowed to continue speaking out and other drivers have said the same.BIRD said human rights in the two countries had been"increasingly trampled on" since last year's grands prix and accused Formula One of helping to"facilitate sportswashing of abuses.
The Sunni-ruled state, a U.S. ally, crushed an anti-government uprising led largely by the Shi'ite Muslim community in 2011.
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