By Index on Censorship / 28 March, 2014 Every year, the Bahraini government hopes the roar of Formula One cars will drown out criticism for the regime’s human rights violations. This year, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) asks you to ensure that does not happen. How to Show Your Support 1. Join the #F1 Thunderclap action and support the campaign with Twitter, Facebook, or both. 2. Tell all of your friends and followers Read more [...]

A new initiative aimed at breaking Bahrain's political impasse, a round of dialogue sponsored by the Crown Prince, is due to start soon. Parallels between present day Bahrain and the Northern Ireland of a generation ago are not new but there's an obvious lesson from what happened there 40 springs ago. A few years after largescale violence broke out in Northern Ireland the British government initiated a political dialogue with some of the opposition groups, resulting Read more [...]

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Manama, March 28 (BNA)-- Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) continues to count the days down to the long-awaited global debut of its state-of-the-art track floodlighting system at the 2014 Formula One Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. The much-hyped weekend of motorsport and entertainment takes place April 4-5-6 in Sakhir, and it will be highlighted by Bahrain’s first-ever Formula One night race. The event Read more [...]