An Emirati court has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison for insulting the "status and prestige of the UAE and its symbols".
The Abu Dhabi court also imposed a fine of a million dirhams ($275,000 or 235,000 euros) and ordered Ahmed Mansoor be placed under surveillance for three years after his release.
The 48-year-old was convicted of attempting to harm his country's relations with its neighbours by spreading misinformation on social media.
Mansoor was cleared of conspiring with a "terrorist organisation".
His court-appointed lawyer Tariq al-Shamsi had told an earlier hearing that Mansoor should be cleared of all charges.
During his detention, the prosecutor accused him of using social media to "publish false information and rumours, spread tendentious ideas that would sow sedition, sectarianism and hatred", state news agency WAM reported.
He was also accused of harming national unity and social peace and the state's reputation.
Mansoor was part of a group of activists known as the UAE Five, who were arrested in April 2011 and released later that year by a presidential pardon -- although authorities confiscated his passport and banned him from leaving the country.
He was re-arrested in March 2017 under the Gulf state's cyber-crime law.
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