Sudan president to meet British teddy row teacher

Sudan’s president will meet with a British delegation to discuss a possible pardon for the teddy row teacher, a top presidential aide and spokesman said tonight.

“The (Sudanese) president will meet the British delegation at 10:30 (on Monday morning) at the presidential palace,” Mahzoub Faidul said.

“He will discuss the case and a possible pardon.”

British Muslim peers Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Lord Nazir Ahmed held a second day of meetings with Sudanese officials early with an eventual goal of obtaining a pardon for Gillian Gibbons from the President.

Miss Gibbons, 54, was sentenced on Thursday to 15 days in jail and deportation for insulting Islam by allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed – the name of Islam’s prophet. The naming was part of a class project for her seven-year-old students at a private school in Sudan.