Peers meet 'teddy' teacher
01/12/2007 17:24  - (SA)  

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Khartoum - Two Muslim members of Britain's House of Lords met with jailed British teacher Gillian Gibbons at a secret location in Khartoum on Saturday, a member of her defence team said.

The lawyer, who asked not to be named, said Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi, from the upper house of Britain's parliament, met with Gibbons who was jailed for 15 days on Thursday for allowing students to name a teddy bear Muhammed.

He declined to elaborate on the encounter, which came the day after thousands demonstrated in Khartoum against what the said was a lenient sentence, with some calling for her death.

Gibbons was jailed and ordered to be expelled for allowing pupils in her class of seven- and eight-year-olds to give the bear the same name as the Muslim prophet, as part of a school project.

She could have faced a maximum sentence of 40 lashes, six months in jail and a fine.

The peers arrived in Sudan on Saturday having said in London they hoped to return to Britain on Monday with Gibbons.

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