Formula One held its Grand Prix auto race in Bahrain Sunday amid large pro-democracy protests against the U.S.-backed Bahraini government. Activists said police used tear gas to stop demonstrations in several Shi’ite villages around Manama after the race. A team working for Britain’s Channel 4 Television was arrested, and their driver was reportedly assaulted by police. On Saturday, an activist named Salah Abbas Habib was killed, reportedly after being beaten by police. The Bahraini government has refused to release his body to his family.

Hadi al-Mousawi, Bahraini human rights activist: “They don’t want to hand over the body today, because there would have been two events: Formula One and funeral one. They don’t want the attention of the world diverted, because the turnout will be huge.”