An award-winning Sudanese journalist has said she will go to jail rather than pay a fine after a court convicted her of preventing a security officer from doing his job, AFP news agency reports.
Amal Habani, the winner of an Amnesty International prize for reporting on human rights in Sudan, was ordered to pay 10,000 Sudanese pounds ($1,400; £1,100) or face a jail term of four months.
In an interview with AFP, she said:
This is injustice. I was covering a trial of human rights activists [in March] when the security officer beat me.
When I complained against him, he filed a case against me. I will not pay the fine but rather go to jail.”
Her lawyer, Ahmed Elshukri, said he would appeal against the court’s order.
Ms Habani writes for online Sudanese newspaper Al-Taghyeer.
Source: BBC