A 20-year-old Bahraini student and poet named Ayat al-Qurmezi has been detained since March and was sentenced this week to one year in prison. From her poem "Khalifa":

Hear me:
You, the elder,
the "good man", who "safeguards justice"
(so you have always declared),

if I were to make excuses for you,
I, for you,
for the things you have done,
I would only look the fool,
for you would continue in your ways,
and murder us as "traitors".

The full poem is here. Sophia Jones lists other poets punished in the Middle East: