Six teenagers in France have been found guilty in connection with the 2020 beheading of teacher Samuel Paty. Paty was killed in Paris after presenting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a lesson on freedom of expression.

One teenage girl was convicted of fabricating details about the class incident, while five others were found guilty of revealing Paty's identity to his assailant.

The sentences range from 14 months to two years, with all being suspended or commuted. Social media exposure of Paty's name followed the display of Charlie Hebdo's caricatures in his class.

The girl who lied about the incident claimed Paty had asked Muslim students to leave the room before showing the cartoons, but she was absent during the class. She was convicted of making false accusations and slander. The five other defendants, aged 14 and 15 at the time, were found guilty of surveilling the teacher.

They were convicted of involvement in a group preparing aggravated violence.

Mr Paty's killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, an 18-year-old Chechen refugee, was shot dead by police at the scene of the murder.

A second trial will open next year for eight adults also accused of complicity in the murder. These include Brahim Chnina, the father of the 13-year-old girl on trial.

Depictions of the Prophet Muhammad are widely regarded as taboo in Islam, and are considered highly offensive by Muslims.

The issue is particularly sensitive in France because of Charlie Hebdo's decision to publish cartoons of the Prophet.

Twelve people were killed by Islamist extremists at the magazine's offices in 2015 after the images were published.