DUBAI: The Bahrain government released a woman who had been detained after reciting poems critical of the Kingdom's rulers during protests earlier this year. Ayat al-Qurmezi, 20, was released on Wednesday, her brother reported to local media. The young woman became famous in the country, and especially among anti-government demonstrators after her poems against the King and Prime Minister led to the government arresting her. One verse, addressed to King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, included the lines: “We are the people who will kill humiliation and assassinate misery. Don't you hear their cries? Don't you hear their screams?” The young woman was arrested in March when her family's home was raided by security officials. She was held without charge until last month, when she was convicted of anti-government crimes in a special tribunal. Qurmezi was sentenced to one year in prison. Her brother, Youssef, told The Associated Press that he did not know whether or not the charges against her had been dropped. The court's decision drew sharp denunciations from opposition groups and the international rights group Amnesty International, which said the verdict highlighted how free speech is “brutally denied” by Bahrain's authorities. At least 32 people died during the five months of protests and crackdowns in Bahrain, the home of the US Navy's 5th Fleet. Hundreds of protesters, activists and doctors and nurses who treated protesters were detained and tried in the military-linked tribunal set up under martial law. Bahrain lifted emergency rule in June and released some of those detained, including 28 doctors and nurses. At least 20 medical professionals remain in custody. BM