British teacher in Sudan has been pardoned

SudanTribune "December 3, 2007 (KHARTOUM) — A British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammad will be released on Monday after receiving a pardon from Sudan’s president, a source in a British parliamentary delegation said. The pardon followed an appeal by two leading British Muslims to the Sudanese president in an attempt to secure an early release for Gillian Gibbons, who was sentenced on Thursday to 15 days in jail for insulting Islam, to be followed by deportation."

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