{"id":6495,"date":"2011-06-14T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=6495"},"modified":"2011-06-15T12:12:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T16:12:27","slug":"a-year-in-jail-for-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/a-year-in-jail-for-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A year in jail for a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via “The Arabist<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

Bahrain: A year in jail for a\u00a0poem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

By\u00a0\"Author\"Ursula Lindsey<\/a> \"Date\"June 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM\u00a0\"ShareShare<\/a><\/div>\n
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On Sunday a court in Bahrain\u00a0sentenced<\/a> Ayat Al Qurmazi, a 20-year-old education student, to a year in prison for insulting the king and inciting hatred. Al Qurmazi became famous after reciting\u00a0poetry<\/a> Pearl Square that includes the lines such as:<\/p>\n

We are the people who will kill humiliation and assassinate misery <\/strong>
\nWe are the people who will destroy the foundation of injustice <\/strong>
\nDon’t you hear their cries, don’t you hear their screams <\/strong><\/p>\n

You can see her reciting her\u00a0poetry<\/a> — dedicated directly to the king — here.<\/p>\n

According to the Associated Press, while in detention Al Qurmazi was lashed in the face with electrical cables and forced to clean toilets with her hands. Here is a\u00a0Facebook page<\/a> dedicated to her case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Via “The Arabist“: Bahrain: A year in jail for a\u00a0poem By\u00a0Ursula Lindsey June 14, 2011 at 4:32 PM\u00a0Share On Sunday a court in Bahrain\u00a0sentenced Ayat Al Qurmazi, a 20-year-old education student, to a year...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,91],"tags":[1011],"class_list":["post-6495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arab-culture","category-poetry","tag-ayat-al-qurmazi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6495\/revisions\/6497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}