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June 12th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Government officials denied allegations that he had been mistreated.
“The juvenile is receiving social care and tutoring at the (detention)
centre,” the Bahrain International Affairs Authority said in a
statement.
“He completed his last exam of the sixth grade level on Thursday.”
Ali Hasan was the youngest minor held in Bahrain custody, but human rights
groups say that more than 60 minors remain in custody, three of whom are
serving 15-year prison sentences following convictions by military tribunals.
Hundreds more have been detained and released. Some of those have approached
human rights groups to say they have been tortured. The Bahrain Centre for
Human Rights released photographs in April of a 13-year-old boy, Sayed
Yaseen Shubber, showing his back and face covered with bruises and grazes.
The practice of detaining children has grown more widespread in recent months,
activists say, partly as a result of what they say is a campaign to
intimidate their parents and partly because anti-government protests have
spread to schools.
Police have been accused of bursting into lessons and examination halls to
haul out pupils accused of subversion.
One parent, who did not want her family identified, said that her 14-year-old
daughter was arrested, tortured and threatened along with many of her
classmates after the security forces burst into her school to break up a
protest.
“They smashed her head against a wall and hit her in the face until her
nose bled,” the girl’s mother said. “They threatened to rape her,
and forced her to watch as her friends were also beaten.”
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