Three journalists arrested and detained after publishing details of a government report on corruption in Ivory Coast's cocoa trade walked freed on Monday after a court convicted them on lesser charges. The court fined them 7,500 euros (9,750 dollars) for publishing material in a judicial document that had not yet been made public and ordered the suspension of their newspaper's publication for three days. But it rejected more serious charges of document theft and disclosure of a document covered by secrecy. Prosecutors had originally asked for sentences of 12 months in prison against Theophile Kouamouo, a French national and editorial director of Le Nouveau Courrier, and senior editors Stephane Guede and Saint Claver Oula. The trio had been held since July 16 after running a story on the cocoa industry which quoted the findings of a judicial inquiry that had been delivered to President Laurent Gbagbo. The inquiry, launched by Gbagbo in October 2007, led to the arrest in June 2008 of about 20 senior industry officials on embezzlement and fraud charges. They have yet to stand trial. Ivory Coast is the world's leading exporter of cocoa, which together with coffee makes up 40 percent of its export receipts, but management of the sector was greatly disrupted by the 2008 arrests. 