Adviser says teacher in Sudan has been pardoned
A British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammad has been pardoned, a Sudanese presidential adviser said on Monday.
Posted: Monday, December 3, 2007, 8:43 (GMT)
KHARTOUM - A British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammad has been pardoned, a Sudanese presidential adviser said on Monday.
Asked whether Gillian Gibbons had been pardoned, the adviser told Reuters by telephone from inside a meeting with Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir: "Definitely, yes."
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