While Azerbaijan is boasting of its being able to stage this Monday’s European Grand Prix, the country’s human rights records have been under fire. But F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone seems indifferent to the country’s human rights issue. AFP PHOTO
While Azerbaijan is boasting of its being able to stage this Monday’s European Grand Prix, the country’s human rights records have been under fire. But F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone seems indifferent to the country’s human rights issue. AFP PHOTO

BAKU: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone on Thursday (Friday in Manila) brushed off concerns about rights abuses in Azerbaijan, where the European Grand Prix takes place this week for the first time, asking: “Does anyone know what human rights are?”

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