KHARTOUM: A Sudanese court on Sunday acquitted award-winning journalist Faisal Mohammed Salih of publishing lies in a column he wrote about an activist's allegation of rape in custody.

A member of Sudan's security bureau charged Salih under the criminal code, alleging he had lied and insulted the state in a 2011 column.

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