{"id":7331,"date":"2021-01-12T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/royal-horse-show-agrees-to-adopt-human-rights-policy"},"modified":"2021-01-12T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T17:29:03","slug":"royal-horse-show-agrees-to-adopt-human-rights-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/12\/royal-horse-show-agrees-to-adopt-human-rights-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal horse show agrees to adopt human rights policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Windsor Horse Show faced claims it was being used by Bahraini royal family to \u2018sportswash\u2019<\/p><p>Organisers of the UK\u2019s largest outdoor horse show, whose most famous fan is the Queen, have agreed to adopt a human rights policy following accusations that the show is being used by the Bahraini royal family to distract from rights abuses.<\/p><p>The kingdom of Bahrain sponsors some events at the Royal Windsor Horse Show. Human rights campaigners have repeatedly raised concerns that sponsoring prestigious sporting events like this one which has strong UK royal associations is an act of \u201csportswashing\u201d to conceal the country\u2019s poor human rights record.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/nov\/25\/formula-one-faces-charge-of-aiding-sportwashing-by-racing-in-bahrain\">Formula One faces charge of aiding sportwashing by racing in Bahrain<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/royal-horse-show-agrees-to-adopt-human-rights-policy\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/royal-horse-show-agrees-to-adopt-human-rights-policy\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Windsor Horse Show faced claims it was being used by Bahraini royal family to \u2018sportswash\u2019Organisers of the UK\u2019s largest outdoor horse show, whose most famous fan is the Queen, have agreed to adopt a human rights policy following accusations that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[746,2029,6,1258,2031,2030,2028,1314,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}