Filipino journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio has been found guilty of financing terrorism and sentenced to at least 12 years in jail.

Cumpio, 26, was arrested in February 2020 after police and military raided her boarding house in the middle of the night and allegedly found a hand grenade, firearm, and communist flag in her bed.

Several thousand pounds in cash were also seized, which Cumpio has said were from a fundraising campaign.

On Thursday, after six years in prison without trial, she was acquitted of charges related to the illegal possession of firearms and explosives, but convicted on a terrorism financing charge, in a case press freedom groups have described as fabricated.

She faces 12 years behind bars.