DUSHANBE (AFP) - A court in Tajikistan on Friday sentenced a BBC reporter to three years in prison in a case that raised alarm over press freedom in the ex-Soviet state but immediately granted him an amnesty, his lawyer said. The court in Khujand in the northern Sogd region convicted Urunbay Usmonov for spreading "the propaganda" of banned Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir, his lawyer told AFP. With concern growing over media freedoms in the impoverished state, a second Tajik journalist who accused local authorities of corruption was fined more than 7,000 dollars in a separate case.