It's time to stop dealing with Bahrain Last weekend, all eyes were on Bahrain, and not for the reason the government had hoped. Coverage of Sebastian Vettel's victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix was drowned out by a mess of stun grenades, burning tyres, tear gas and Molotov cocktails. Bahrain's ongoing unrest pushed human rights organisations to call for the race to be cancelled. The Bahrain Independent Commission for Inquiry (BICI) was created by King Hamad to investigate human rights violations in the months following the start of unrest on 14 February last year. The Commission's report, released on 23 November, was met with scepticism from activists and members of civil society. I went to Bahrain for the report's launch, hoping it would prove more than an elaborate PR exercise. Although government officials are quick to point to the number of committees established and the long list of international experts enlisted in helping the regime move past the problems of last year, there has been no real progress. Not a single senior figure has been held to account. Bahrain should be congratulated for recognising the appalling human rights violations committed during last year's crackdown and for proposing reforms but it now needs to make good on those proposals. Words are yet to be put into actions. Promises of reform carry little weight when the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) reports that approximately 600 political prisoners have yet to be freed, despite the commission's call for their release. Maryam Alkhawaja, head of the Foreign Relations Office at BCHR, has warned that without the international community holding Bahrain accountable for human rights violations, the country will see "the same kind of excessive force, systematic torture, and daily human rights violations" documented by the organisation during the past year. Alkhawaja added that if international bodies do take action, activists "might be lucky enough to see a different approach for Bahrain." Bahrain has been given the space and time to take implementation seriously, and the international community must place pressure on the government to reform where it counts. This means that we shouldn't be doing business with the regime, and we most certainly should not be selling them arms or inviting them to lunch. Sara Yasin works for Index on Censorship. She tweets at @missyasin.