British Teacher in Teddy Bear Case to 15 Days in Jail

By Tom | November 29, 2007

A court in Sudan has convicted a British teacher 54-year-old Gillian Gibbons of inciting religious hatred by letting her class of seven-year-olds name a teddy bear Muhammad to 15 days in prison, followed by deportation from Sudan.54-year-old Gillian Gibbons, was arrested Sunday after she asked her young students to write an imaginary diary for a teddy bear, as a writing exercise. The children decided to name the bear Muhammad, which is a common man’s name in Sudan and other majority-Muslim countries, the British Foreign Office said.She had faced charges under Article 125 of Sudan’s constitution, the law relating to insulting religion and inciting hatred.

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