{"id":4004,"date":"2007-12-03T06:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T06:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/sudan-president-pardons-britis.html"},"modified":"2007-12-03T06:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T06:48:00","slug":"sudan-president-pardons-britis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/sudan-president-pardons-britis.html","title":{"rendered":"Sudan President Pardons British Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bet she can’t wait to get out of that country<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sudan’s president on Monday agreed to pardon a British teacher jailed after letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, and officials said she would be released and would fly back to England later in the day.
\nLord Nazir Ahmed and another Muslim representative from Britain’s House of Lords, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Monday at his presidential palace to plead for Gillian Gibbons’ pardon.
\n“The president has told us he has already signed the papers for her pardon,” Ahmed told reporters afterward.
\nSudanese presidential spokesman Mahzoub Faidul told The Associated Press that Gibbons would “be released today and will fly back to England today.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I bet she can’t wait to get out of that country: Sudan’s president on Monday agreed to pardon a British teacher jailed after letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad, and officials said she would be released and would fly back to England later in the day. 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