Sudan, Britain To Meet Over Jailed Teacher
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s president will meet a British delegation to discuss a possible pardon for a teacher imprisoned in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, a presidential spokesman said yesterday.
Two Muslim members of British Parliament, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Lord Nazir Ahmed, have been in Sudan for two days trying to set up a meeting with President al-Bashir. He is the only one who can pardon Gillian Gibbons, the 54-year-old British teacher who has been imprisoned since Thursday.
“The [Sudanese] president will meet the British delegation at 10:30 [Monday morning] at the presidential palace,” Mahzoub Faidul told the Associated Press. “He will discuss the case and a possible pardon.”
