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April 23rd, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Bahraini security forces detained the members of a team of journalists for Britain’s Channel 4 News on Sunday when they were reporting from a village on the event.
The Bahraini regime had earlier only granted entry visas to sports reporters who were to cover the race itself and denied visas to those who were likely to report on the crackdown on the massive anti-F1 GP protests.
The Channel 4 team is thought to have been detained over fears that they were covering the demonstrations and the police brutal repression. Media reports say they are set to be deported after their release late on Sunday.
However, Hague failed to raise the matter on the official Foreign Office website and only expressed concerns about their detention in a Twitter post.
“[I am] very concerned about the detention of Channel 4 journalist in Bahrain. Our embassy is seeking urgent consular access,” his belated Twitter post, dated April 23, 01:40 a.m., said.
This comes as Hague’s post expressing his concern about the detention of the journalists was dated April 23 while the AFP reported the release of Channel 4 crew at 22:28 p.m on Sunday April 22.
Hague said on April 12 in answer to those “asking about Bahrain F1” that whether to hold the race or not in the context of the violence in the Persian Gulf country “is a decision for F1. Not up to UK government to decide sporting fixtures.”
Hague’s failure in connection with the journalists and the fact that the incident did not even appear on the Foreign Office website raises questions whether London prefers to cover up abuses of media freedom by its allies – including Bahrain – at the expense of its own citizens’ rights.
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