A British teacher who was jailed over the naming of a teddy bear said Tuesday that she "got a bit more than I bargained for" during her stint in Sudan.
CNN's Owen Thomas and Wilf Dinnick report on the return of Gillian Gibbons to England.
The British teacher's ordeal shows Sudan's government must tread warily when dealing with their Islamic fundamentalists
In an effort to shut down Khartoum's Unity High School, a disgruntled former employee alerted Sudanese officials that a British teacher had allowed her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed," a British source and Sudanese presidential palace source told Time magazine's Sam Dealey.
Sudanese reportedly demand the execution of a British teacher whose students named a teddy bear Muhammad.
Hundreds of angry protesters, some waving ceremonial swords from trucks equipped with loud speakers, gathered Friday outside the presidential palace to denounce a teacher whose class named a teddy bear "Mohammed" -- some calling for her execution.
Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir on Monday morning will meet with two British lawmakers to discuss a possible pardon for a British teacher convicted of insulting religion, presidential palace sources told Time magazine's Sam Dealey on Sunday.
Two British Muslim lawmakers are reported to have met a British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" and they said she was in good spirits.
A Sudanese court found a British teacher guilty of insulting religion and sentenced her to 15 days in prison Thursday for allowing a teddy bear to be named "Mohammed," British authorities and her lawyer reported.
A British teacher arrested in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been charged by authorities with offending religion, British officials say.
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that officials were working to secure the early release of a British teacher who faces being whipped in Sudan after she allowed her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."
Sudan has arrested a British teacher for insulting faith and religion, the British Foreign Office said Monday.
Miss Gibbons' class named their stuffed toy Muhammad, after the most popular boy in class. Now she's in a Sudanese jail for insulting Islam's prophet
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