Manama, July 20 (ANI): Allegations of torture against a female member of Baharian's royal family made by the 20-year-old student poet Ayat al-Gormezi, are to be investigated by a special committee of the Interior Ministry.
Gormezi, in a recent interview with the Independent, claimed that a female member of the al-Khalifa royal family repeatedly beat her when she was in prison for reciting a poem at a pro-democracy protest rally.
Gormezi had described how for nine days she was punched and beaten with a baton and electric cable so severely that she lost consciousness.
She was threatened with rape or sexual molestation, kept in a freezing cell and forced to clean a lavatory with her bare hands.
She said she was told by prison guards that one of those beating her was a woman member of the royal al-Khalifa family.
Gormezi's family said she was called to give a statement to the committee set up by the Interior Minister.
Gormezi was detained on 30 March at her parents' house after spending two weeks in hiding when the government, backed by a Saudi-led force, started a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests in mid-March.
She had been targeted by the authorities after she read out a poem at a rally in February which contained the lines, 'we are the people who will kill humiliation and assassinate misery. We are the people who will destroy injustice.' (ANI)
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