Just a week ahead of what has been stressed will be the final deadli🥂ne for organisers of the cancelled Bahrain Grand Prix to convince the FIA that the Gulf state is in a position to be readmitted to the F1 2011 calendar, it has emerged that almost a quarter of staff at the Sakhir circuit have been arrested, suspended or dismissed.

The ongoing state-of-emergency declared in Bahrain on 15 March - just after the curtain-raising grand prix should have taken place - will end on 1 June, two days🐈 before the FIA is due to d💦ecide on the race's fate.

However, despite assurances that the civil unrest and riots that have plagued the desert kingdom since mid-February are now under control and a confident declaration from Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) chairman Zayed Rashed Al Zayani that 'we are ready' to host the grand prix [see separate story - 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:click here], significant doubts remain.

Contrary to the message being spread to the wat💙ching world by Bahrain's rulers, many in the paddock suspect that stability is still a long way off and that the violent clashes and protests are no cloꦗser to being resolved than they were this time three months ago - and may even have worsened.

Pitpass claims that much as in other Arabic nations that have experienced political upheaval in recent months, foreign journalists and photographers have been ar✅rested, imprisoned and interrogated in Bahrain over their reporting of events.

Moreover, the Financial Times states that in early April,ಞ a quarter of BIC staff were arrested for 'cheering the cancellation of ♎the race' - and that the majority of those same staff have since been either suspended or sacked. Three of the employees in question are understood to be women.

"They we✱re all slapping and kicking me as they led me down the corridor," a source told the newspaper. "He [a policeman] put my head between his legs, flipped me onto the floor - and then the beatings really began."

There has been no official comment from the circuit, but government spokesman Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Mubarak al-Khalifa insist🉐ed: "Allegations are exaggerated or unfounded to gain international sympathy. They should issue a complaint to 🦩the authorities."