Court bans Argentine radio host from broadcasting

An Argentine radio journalist has been sentenced to a one-year suspended jail sentence and banned from working for a year after being convicted of criminal slander. Sergio Poma, host of a news programme on FM Noticias, was said to have insulted a provincial governor by accusing him of malpractice. The use of the law, and the gagging sentence, were condemned by the New York-based press watchdog, the Committee to Protect Journalists. (Via CPJ)