http://www.shiatv.net/video/86a60b3a9974e1fa8fb6
Ayat Hassan Mohammed Al-Qurmezi (Arabic: آيات حسن محمد القرمزي (born c. 1991, Sadad, Bahrain) is a poet student at the at the University of Bahrain Teaching Institute in Bahrain & a female activist against the Al Khalifah Dictator Clan. Ayat Al-Qurmezi became famous in Bahrain and internationally after reading out a poem criticising Bahraini government policies to the Pearl Square Roundabout gathering of pro-democracy protesters. After the poem was widely circulated by social media she and her family were subjected to harassment and death threats. She was arrested and detained in conditions of secrecy. Rumours of her death in custody led to protests by Iranian activists. She was subjected to torture while in custody and eventually tried on charges of inciting hatred of the Bahraini regime and insulting members of the royal family.
On 1 October 2014, it was announced that Al-Qurmezi was awarded the 2015 Student Peace Prize "for her unwavering struggle for democracy and human rights in Bahrain".
This is a very powerful video of Ayat reading the poem that would have her arrested by the government for its opposing words: Ayat Hassan Mohammed Al-Qurmezi (Arabic: آيات حسن محمد القرمزي (born c. 1991, Sadad, Bahrain) is a poet student at the at the University of Bahrain Teaching Institute in Bahrain & a female activist against the Al Khalifah Dictator Clan. Ayat Al-Qurmezi became famous in Bahrain and internationally after reading out a poem criticising Bahraini government policies to the Pearl Square Roundabout gathering of pro-democracy protesters. After the poem was widely circulated by social media she and her family were subjected to harassment and death threats. She was arrested and detained in conditions of secrecy. Rumours of her death in custody led to protests by Iranian activists. She was subjected to torture while in custody and eventually tried on charges of inciting hatred of the Bahraini regime and insulting members of the royal family.
On 1 October 2014, it was announced that Al-Qurmezi was awarded the 2015 Student Peace Prize "for her unwavering struggle for democracy and human rights in Bahrain".