F1's 'moral vacuum': Drivers urged to tackle human rights in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia
' by speaking out at season-opening races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, human rights campaigners said on Tuesday.
The sport's governing body updated the sporting code last December requiring drivers to get prior written permission to make or display"political, religious and personal statements or comments." The accusation of 'sportswashing' is leveled at countries who are perceived to be using sport to improve a tarnished image abroad.
A statement was read out on behalf of families of 12 prisoners BIRD said were facing death sentences in Bahrain. 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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