Summary Online activists strongly criticised Sunday's ruling, which is final.
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Kuwait s supreme court on Sunday upheld a two-year jail sentence for opposition activist Ayyad al-Harbi over tweets deemed offensive to the Gulf state s ruler.
Harbi, a journalist in his 20s at the Sabr news website, has been behind bars since May after the appeals court handed him the prison sentence.
Online activists strongly criticised Sunday s ruling, which is final.
They said that Harbi had only re-posted on Twitter verse in which Iraqi poet Ahmad Matar blasted Arab rulers.
Criticising the emir is illegal in Kuwait and is considered a state security offence. Those convicted can face jail for up to five years.
Harbi is among several online activists who are serving prison sentences.
In February, former lawmaker Mussallam al-Barrak was condemned to two years in jail for insulting the emir at an opposition gathering in 2012.
The supreme court is to hear his appeal on April 13.
