Ayat al-Gormezi, the 20-year-old Bahrain poet who was jailed for a year for reading out a poem that criticised the country's king at a demonstration, has been freed after an international outcry over her detention. Gormezi, who had served a month of her year's sentence, has apparently been told that her release was conditional on her not taking part in any future protests. In a phone interview with the Independent after her release she said that a female member of the Bahrain royal family had taken part in beatings administered to her in detention. Fatima Al-Matar translated the poem that landed Gormezi in jail for Write Out Loud. You can read it here