#Kuwait confirms five year jail term for activist who criticized emir on #Twitter
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Kuwait’s appeals court Thursday confirmed a five-year jail term for an online rights activist convicted of criticizing the emirate’s ruler on Twitter. The court also confirmed a deportation order against Abdullah Fairouz Abdullah Abd al-Kareem, 30, despite the fact that he is entitled to Kuwaiti nationality. Kareem was sentenced on January 9 for posting comments deemed offensive to the emir in the Gulf country, where criticizing the ruler is a crime. He was also ordered to be deported after serving his sentence, although his father is Kuwaiti. read more