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Baku good replacement for Monza claims Ecclestone
Formula 1 Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday confirmed the sport's newest host nation is Azerbaijan. It was already known that the sport's chief executive had inked a deal for a street race in Baku, the capital of the oil-rich former Soviet country. But earlier this week, it emerged that the Formula One Group had published a human rights policy vowing to respect 'human rights in all of our activities'. But several independent bodies, such as Human Rights Watch, have repeatedly criticised the Azerbaijani government for its human rights record, including arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions, beatings and torture. Ecclestone, however, said in Bahrain: 'Baku? No problem. That's going to be...
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