Majeed Marhoon (Arabic: مجيد مرهون) (1945–2010) was a Bahraini saxophonist, and a former leftist political activist with the National Liberation Front of Bahrain. He spent 22 years in prison in Bahrain between 1968 and 1990, accused of planting a bomb in the car of a British intelligence officer of 21 March 1966. Seventeen of his years in captivity were spent at the Jidda Island prison, four of those years in solitary confinement.
Born |
17 August 1945 Hoora, Bahrain
|
Died |
23 February 2010 (aged 64) Hura, Bahrain
|
Zodiac | Leo |
Tags | Add tag |