HUMAN Rights campaigners accused Forumla One of being complicit in the Bahraini regime’s long list of human rights abuses today.

The Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (Bird), Human Rights Watch and 15 other organisations wrote to Formula One’s general counsel Sacha Woodward Hill last month calling on her organisation to publicly urge the Bahraini authorities to drop the charges against tortured human rights activist Najah Yusuf.

Ms Yusuf was arrested in April 2017 and sentenced to three years in prison in June 2018 after the Western-backed kingdom’s authorities deemed her social media posts to be “promoting and encouraging people to overthrow the political and social systems.”