Read 'Poet jailed for reciting pro-democracy poem claims she was tortured by Bahraini royal' on Yahoo! News. Manama, July 18 (ANI): A 20-year-old Bahraini poet Ayat al-Gormezi has claimed that she was repeatedly beaten by a female member of the al-Khalifa royal family, when she was in prison for reciting a poem at a pro-democracy protest rally.