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Bahrain's Grand Prix of Suppression
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- Parent Category: Focus Issues
- Category: Human Rights
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21 Apr 2012
- Last Updated on Monday, 17 December 2012 18:22
- Published on Saturday, 21 April 2012 14:18
- Written by Maran Turner Special to CNN
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CNN -- "Unified: One nation in celebration" is the jubilant slogan of this year's Formula 1 Grand Prix in Bahrain. The irony could not be harsher: while sports fans look forward to this glamorous race, one of the country's most prominent human rights activists is close to death in protest of his ongoing unlawful detention.
Solidarity protests in the streets continue to be brutally suppressed. From the perspective of a majority of Bahrain's population, it is not one nation. And it is certainly not celebrating.
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