said her treatment in prison had improved in recent days, in contrast to the extreme mistreatment she received when she was first detained at the end of March when she was hit in the face with electric cable, held for nine days in a tiny cold cell and was forced to clean toilets with her hands.Her family, who has has lodged an appeal against the sentence, say the change in the authorities' behaviour towards her is due to the international publicity given to her case.
A day after al-Gormezi's conviction more than thirty doctors and nurses appeared before a judge in a special security tribunal.
from The Muslim News: Poet and doctors jailed in Bahrain
then Reporters Without Borders: One blogger sentenced to life imprisonment, another to 15 years in jail
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