two months ago after reading out a poem at a pro-democracy rally, is due to go on trial today before a military tribunal, her mother said. Ayat was forced to turn herself in when masked policemen threatened to kill her brothers unless she did so. She has not been seen since her arrest, though her mother did talk to her once by phone and Ayat said that she had been forced to sign a false confession. Her mother has since been told that her daughter has been in a military hospital after being tortured.
from The Irish Independent: Locked up for reading a poem
then Telegraph: Female poet brought before Bahrain military tribunal
then The Public Record: Women In The Arab Spring
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