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Controversy and condemnation has engulfed the tiny Kingdom of Bahrain today
as Bernie Ecclestone's Grand Prix took a rather unwelcoming hit. The controversial
race has been the subject of worldwide criticism as news channels all over the
world turned their eyes to cover the abuses behind the surface. UK Parliamentarians
and Labour leader Ed Milliband have urged David Cameron to send out a message
calling for the cancellation of the controversial race.

The race has been destined for failure from the start as it remains a mystery

Violence erupted in Bahrain over the past few weeks as opposition protests
faced elevated suppressions around villages. Protesters have been calling for
the immediate release of prominent rights activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja who
today enters his 66th day of hunger strike. His life is under severe threat and
over 300 individuals and groups around the world have signed a letter addressed
to Bahrain’s king Hamad for Khawaja’s immediate release. Protesters have also been

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before anyone even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi

The former Chief of Polish Intelligence Service, Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, has been charged of participation in organising secret CIA detention camps in a former military base in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland.

A thousand words were indeed echoed in Bahrain today as protesters took to the streets in one of the largest marches in the history of the tiny gulf nation. Men, women and children of all ages reiterated their peaceful demands in an emotional march that had no visible end to its initiation. Opposition parties instructed the participants to ensure that only one symbol was to be visible during the procession; the flag of the nation.

The Bahraini population this time last year took to the streets of their country and inspired by popular uprisings set in Tunisia and Egypt, called for the recognition of their virtually never before existing basic rights as human beings.

A gathering of the masses, a never closer unification of the political opposition and the word on the street, a unified call for the ever inevitable feeling of hope, just a feeling for now, but it is set to transform into the reality it once was, one call: the return to Pearl Square.

New developments in the tiny Gulf Kingdom of Bahrain have reached boiling point after reports have surfaced that prominent human rights activist, president of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights and 2011 Ion Ratiu Democracy Award winner Nabeel Rajab was brutally beaten and injured during his participation in a peaceful protest. Bahrain has exploded with calls for the immediate release of Nabeel Rajab with opposition group Al Wefaq condemning the incident and demanding an apology along side his release.