20-year-old Bahraini poet Ayat Al-Gormezi was freed after three months of jail and torture by the regime in Bahrain.

20-year-old Bahraini poet Ayat Al-Gormezi was freed after three months of jail and torture by the regime in Bahrain.

Al-Gormezi, who was taken away for reading a critical poem against the government in one of the Bahraini people’s marches for democracy, was met by large crowds of admirers who celebrated and cheered for her freedom.

While the pro-American Bahraini regime’s crimes against peaceful protestors and major violations to human rights were met with internarional silence; this young poet’s arrest received international condemnation and her case was highlighted by some Western media.

According to The Independent newspaper, Ayat was reportedly beaten across the face, lashed with electric cables, kept in near freezing cell, and forced to clean police lavatories with her bare hands.

With her influential, passionate, and heroic character, Al-Gormezi became a symbol of resistance against oppression, and was even labeled as the revolution’s poet.

The poet’s family was pleased with Ayat’s freedom, but they could not hide their fear that she might be re-arrested as her release was not a result of a pardon or an appeal against her one-year-sentence.

"We are people who kill humiliation and assassinate misery. We are people who destroy oppression peacefully. Don't you hear their cries? Don't you hear their screams?”

These where the words that Ayat Al-Gormezi said and was instantly arrested for, knowing that she did not give in until the Bahraini forces threatened to kill her brothers if she did not do so.