News - Middle East: A Bahraini child, whose father is awaiting execution, has appealed to seven-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton to help save his father, shedding light on Al-Khalifah regime’s repression in the small Persian Gulf’s island.

Eleven-year-old Ahmed Ramadhan drew a picture of the British driver’s Mercedes, pleading for help: “Lewis, please save my father,” AFP reported.

“When I was drawing the car, I felt hope that it might save my father's life,” the UK-based advocacy group Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy (BIRD) quoted the child as saying in his letter.

In his touching letter, the minor urged the 35-year-old champion, who won the Bahrain Grand Prix last month, to shed light on the case of Mohamed Ramadhan, a former security guard at Bahrain International Airport, who is facing the death penalty after he was convicted of purportedly murdering a police officer in a bomb attack.

Back in July, Bahrain's top court upheld the death penalty against Ramadhan and his alleged accomplice, Hussain Moosa, a former hotel employee, after convicting them of murder.

The pair, who were first sentenced in 2014, are members of the large Shia community of Bahrain, which is ruled by the Sunni Al-Khalifah regime.

Source: Press TV