KHARTOUM: A British primary school teacher has been arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet by letting her class of seven-year-olds name a teddy bear Mohamed, her school said yesterday.
Police arrested Gillian Gibbons, 54 of Liverpool, on Sunday at her home inside the Unity High School premises after a number of parents complained to Sudan’s ministry of education, said Unity director Robert Boulos...
...Boulos said he had decided to close down the school until January for fear of reprisals. “This is a very sensitive issue.”
Earlier Gibbons’ colleagues said they feared for her safety after receiving reports that young men had started gathering outside the Khartoum police station where she was being held. But a Reuters witness at the police station said no one was gathering there.
Boulos said Gibbons was following a British National Curriculum course designed to teach young pupils about animals and their habitats. This year’s animal was the bear. – Reuters
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KHARTOUM: A British primary school teacher has been arrested in Sudan, accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet by letting her class of seven-year-olds name a teddy bear Mohamed, her school said yesterday.
Police arrested Gillian Gibbons, 54 of Liverpool, on Sunday at her home inside the Unity High School premises after a number of parents complained to Sudan’s ministry of education, said Unity director Robert Boulos...
...Boulos said he had decided to close down the school until January for fear of reprisals. “This is a very sensitive issue.”
Earlier Gibbons’ colleagues said they feared for her safety after receiving reports that young men had started gathering outside the Khartoum police station where she was being held. But a Reuters witness at the police station said no one was gathering there.
Boulos said Gibbons was following a British National Curriculum course designed to teach young pupils about animals and their habitats. This year’s animal was the bear. – Reuters