Sudanese president has sole power to pardon British teacher

Only Sudan’s president has the power to pardon a British teacher sentenced to 15 days imprisonment for insulting Islam, said the justice minister today as British Muslim peers pushed to meet the Sudanese leader.

Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Lord Nazir Ahmed moved into a second day of meetings with Sudanese officials early with an eventual goal of obtaining a pardon for Gillian Gibbons from President Omar al-Bashir.