KHARTOUM, Sudan - A lawyer says a Sudanese court has sentenced a journalist to one month in prison for reporting on a rape.
Hassan al-Hussein says journalist Fatima Ghazai was charged Tuesday with spreading false news and causing discord.
Ghazai was fined 2,000 Sudanese pounds ($600 dollars) but given a one-month prison term when she refused to pay. The lawyer says the journalist's chief editor was fined $1,500.
Ghazai reported that a Sudanese woman was raped by Sudanese security forces in January.
At least five other journalists from different media outlets are expected to stand trial for reporting the same story.
