Hassan Oun
In 2010, Hassan Oun was arrested and falsely accused of attempting to topple the Al Khalifa regime along with other scholars and public figures. Then he was released following a royal pardon in February 2011. Then, during the National Safety State, Hassan was arrested again.
He was deprived from sleeping and showering for three weeks.
He was blindfolded most of the time.
He was beaten and punched continuously on the face and was forced to confess that he’s responsible for all the demonstrations that took place in Dair and Samaheej villages.
He was, then, forced to lie down on the ground, on his face, where he was kicked and cursed at.
Hassan’s torturers are known. They’re Yousef Mulla Bkheet and Isa Al-Sulaiti.
The criminal Isa Al Sulaiti
He started bleeding.
He was taken to a sink to wash up.
When he bent to wash his face, both his torturers tried to pull down his pants, in an attempt to rape him.
They couldn’t.
They pulled out a knife and torn his pants and started to sexually harass Hassan.
Hassan started crying.
Yousef and Isa, the torturers, then, left Hassan, after more threats of rape.
Hassan was transferred from Samaheej police station to the Criminal Investigation Department building, then to the Fort (Ministry of Interior) and back to Samaheej police station, during which he was humiliated, cursed at, beaten and tortured. He was deprived from going to the toilet. He was deprived from food and sleep.
Hassan was forced to stand for 16 days, blindfolded and handcuffed.
Hassan, after his first release
The beatings were intermittent. The torturers start the beating. They continue the beating for 45 minutes. They take a rest for 15 minutes. Then, they continue again. If he was to fall asleep, he was not allowed to sleep for more than 4 hours. The torturers wake him up by kicking him on the chest, cursing him and beating him with batons.
One day, he heard a scream, followed by an ambulance siren sound, during which he noticed a state of chaos in the police station.
After sixteen days, Hassan was un-handcuffed and un-blindfolded. Pillows and blankets were given to him.
After a few days, new detainees were brought in. They told him that Zakariya Al-Asheeri, a blogger and a journalist, died in prison (of torture). He realized, then, that the reason behind this change in treatment and the state of chaos they witnessed a few day back was Zakariya’s murder.
Hassan needs HELP!
Hassan remained in his clothes for 24 days. It was soaking in blood.
Hassan was released after 40 days.
A friend of Hassan asked him: “How did you feel when you were being beaten?”
“I wished death was my savior”, Hassan replied.
“That’s when you’re dead, every hour”, he added.
He said it with his head up. He was smiling.
A friend of Hassan was saying that Hassan was having a very tough time after his second release. At moments, he was hallucinating.
Hassan once heard that the security forces raided Samaheej village, so he, unconsciously, went out to the street and started running and shouting. His brother brought him back.
On another night, he was hit by a sound grenade. He was injured in the chest and thigh. Hassan fainted. He was then beaten by security forces, then taken to the hospital, then back to Samaheej police station, where he was received by Yousef, Al-Sulaiti and Mohammed Al-Mannai, who told him that all generations will be released before him.
Yousef Mulla Bkheet threats continued even during demonstrations. He used to shout, “I’ll get you, Oun’s”, threatening the Oun family, even without seeing them.
It’s also noteworthy to mention that Hassan Oun was hit with shotgun pellets on the 13th of March, where he was hospitalized for two days.
That’s what we were told. What wasn’t told is yet much worse.
Hassan remains under the mercy of the children rapist, Yousef Mulla Bkheet.
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