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Sudan's President Pardons British Teacher
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| Last Edited | Eddie Dec 03, 2007 10:03am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, December 3, 2007 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | LONDON, Dec. 3 -- A British school teacher jailed in Sudan for two weeks after allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was freed Monday following a pardon by the Sudanese president.
President Omar al-Bashir's pardon of Gillian Gibbons allowed her to leave prison before the end of her 15-day sentence, and ended a diplomatic tangle, resulting in what British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a victory for common sense.
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"This case has done quite a bit of damage to how the Sudanese government will be perceived; they have done their country no favors," said Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, the county's largest Muslim organization. He called Gibbon's release "wonderful news."
British Muslim groups spoke out strongly in favor of Gibbons and said the Sudanese government's actions in the case have created greater misunderstandings about Islam.
"This has certainly given ammunition to those who never miss an opportunity to portray Muslims as intolerant," Bunglawala said. "We only hope that the actions of Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi and the whole British Muslim community can mitigate against the damage done by the Sudanese authorities."
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