Two days ago I wrote on the British teacher in the Sudan who was being charged as a criminal because she let her class name the class teddy bear "Mohammad." Gillian Gibbon has been convicted. Lucky, I guess, for her the court has chosen not to give her the sentence of forty lashes. Instead it has sentenced her to fifteen days in jail and will deport her.
Mother-of-two Miss Gibbons, 54, escaped a flogging but must now endure 15 days in a notorious Sudan jail.
She will be incarcerated at the squalid Omdurman women's prison in Khartoum, which is massively overcrowded and infested with mosquitoes.
Some Sudanese wanted her executed and she needed an armed guard to go to court because of threats on her life.
According to this story, Britain's Foreign Secretary has expressed "serious concerns" to the Sudanese government while, according to a spokesman, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is "shocked and disappointed." I am sure the knife wielding fanatics calling for Gillian Gibbon's execution are all afright over the "serious concerns" and "disappointment" of the British government. The British government, as in the case earlier this year when Iran kidnapped its sailors, has shown that it can be humiliated on the national stage and its response will be a frown.
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