A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced a journalist to 10 months in prison for spreading disinformation, handing down the first jail term under a new law that critics say threatens free speech.
The court's decision comes four months after parliament passed a "disinformation law" that President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party said would protect the public against the spread of false or misleading information.
Sinan Aygul, a journalist in eastern Turkey's Bitlis province, was detained early in December after he wrote on Twitter that a 14-year-old girl had allegedly been sexually abused by men including police officers and soldiers.
