| F1: the controversial Bahrain Grand Prix – in pictures!

F1: the controversial Bahrain Grand Prix – in pictures ~ The Guardian.

As the grand prix in Bahrain goes ahead despite continuing protests over human right‘s abuses, we look at the events in and around the circuit on race day.

• Jonny Weeks
• guardian.co.uk, Sunday 22 April 2012 17.25 BST

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Demonstrators in Bahrain have been increasingly active in recent days about the prospect of a grand prix in their country … Their protests over the nation’s human right’s record, the treatment of the Shia Muslim community and the lack of democracy have involved violent clashes with security forcesPhotograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters

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