DUBAI Bahraini authorities released rights activist Zainab Al Khawaja from prison on Wednesday after she served a two-month jail term for destroying government property, her lawyer said.

“Zainab is free and she is home with her family,” Mohammed Al Jishi said, adding that she was supposed to be released yesterday, when her two month sentence came to an end.

He said she was released “after orders from the attorney general.”

Zainab, daughter of prominent activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja who is serving a life sentence for plotting against the state, was arrested while participating in a demonstration on August 2.

She was sentenced to two months in prison for destroying property belonging to the Ministry of Interior, said Jishi.

In another incident on Tuesday, protesters threw petrol bombs and stones at riot police who were trying to disperse them with water cannons after the funeral of a man jailed for his role in last year’s pro-democracy uprising, witnesses said.