Metro - London, U.K.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Teddy row teacher Gillian Gibbons was arriving back in Britain early this morning after spending more than a week in custody in Sudan.
The 54-year-old, who was jailed for allowing her class of seven-year-olds to call a class teddy bear Muhammad, was freed yesterday after an official pardon from President Omar al-Bashir.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Mrs Gibbons was in 'remarkably good spirits'.
He welcomed President Bashir's decision to pardon the mother of two. She had been convicted of insulting Islam.
'If this week has taught me anything, it is that anything can happen.' Haras Rafiq, executive director of the Sufi Muslim Council, welcomed the news.
He said: 'It was ridiculous that she was charged and imprisoned in the first place.'
[Visit the Sufi Muslim Council : http://www.sufimuslimcouncil.org/welcome.htm].
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Monday, December 3, 2007
Teddy row teacher Gillian Gibbons was arriving back in Britain early this morning after spending more than a week in custody in Sudan.
The 54-year-old, who was jailed for allowing her class of seven-year-olds to call a class teddy bear Muhammad, was freed yesterday after an official pardon from President Omar al-Bashir.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Mrs Gibbons was in 'remarkably good spirits'.
He welcomed President Bashir's decision to pardon the mother of two. She had been convicted of insulting Islam.
'If this week has taught me anything, it is that anything can happen.' Haras Rafiq, executive director of the Sufi Muslim Council, welcomed the news.
He said: 'It was ridiculous that she was charged and imprisoned in the first place.'
[Visit the Sufi Muslim Council : http://www.sufimuslimcouncil.org/welcome.htm].
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Metro - London, U.K.Monday, December 3, 2007
Teddy row teacher Gillian Gibbons was arriving back in Britain early this morning after spending more than a week in custody in Sudan.
The 54-year-old, who was jailed for allowing her class of seven-year-olds to call a class teddy bear Muhammad, was freed yesterday after an official pardon from President Omar al-Bashir.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Mrs Gibbons was in 'remarkably good spirits'.
He welcomed President Bashir's decision to pardon the mother of two. She had been convicted of insulting Islam.
'If this week has taught me anything, it is that anything can happen.' Haras Rafiq, executive director of the Sufi Muslim Council, welcomed the news.
He said: 'It was ridiculous that she was charged and imprisoned in the first place.'
[Visit the Sufi Muslim Council : http://www.sufimuslimcouncil.org/welcome.htm].
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