Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir issued a decree on Monday ordering the release of a British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammad.
This came following a meeting between al-Bashir and a British parliamentarian delegation which is visiting Sudan to seek an early release of Gillian Gibbons, the British teacher working in an international school in Khartoum.
Gibbons, who had allowed her class of seven-year-olds name a teedy bear Mohammed, the same name of Islam's Prophet as part of a school project, was sentenced on Thursday to 15 days in jail to be followed by deportation.
The British delegation led by Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Lord Ahmed arrived in Khartoum on Saturday for talks with Sudanese officials on Gibbons' case.
On Friday, hundreds of Muslem Sudanese took to the streets of the capital, many waving swords and Islamic flags, calling for death penalty of Gibbons.
Source: Xinhua
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