Bahrain Woman Gets Year for Reading Protest Poem
Bahrain’s rulers are striving to make it seem as if all is well in their tiny Persian Gulf country, but a brutal crackdown on dissent continues as a 20-year-old student is sentenced to a year in prison for reading a poem critical of the government. Ayat al-Qurmezi was convicted of…
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Bahrain Woman Gets Year for Reading Protest Poem
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