‘Kuwait’s Supreme Court has upheld a two-year prison term handed down to opposition activist, Ayyad al-Harbi, for posting Twitter messages considered offensive to the ruler of the Persian Gulf country.
The Sunday ruling came as online activists strongly censured the sentence given to Harbi, a journalist in his 20s at the country’s Sabr news website who has remained in captivity since May 2014 following an appeals court ruling that upheld the original jail term.
The journalist’s online supporters further argued that he had only re-posted on Twitter a verse written by Iraqi poet Ahmad Matar in which he slammed corrupt Arab dictators.’
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