Briton held for 'insulting Islam'
26/11/2007 15:19  - (SA)  

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London - A British teacher has been arrested in Sudan for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad after her students named a teddy bear after Islam's founder, says the foreign office.

Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was detained on Sunday, it said.

According to the foreign office, she was arrested after she had allowed her seven-year-old pupils to choose a name for a stuffed teddy bear, and they chose the name Muhammad.

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