Jose Bove loses jail sentence appeal

An Appeal Court in the French city of Montpellier has sentenced a radical farmers' leader and anti-globalisation campaigner, Jose Bove, to six months in prison.

He'd been convicted, and received a suspended sentence, last March for his part in destroying a field of genetically-modified rice at a government research station in the south of France in 1999.

The prosecution asked for a stiffer sentence - and his lawyer says Mr Bove will appeal.

He'd already been convicted of an attack on other genetically-modified crops, and for ransacking a half-built MacDonalds restaurant.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service