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Article: Now show mercy to your OWN people, Mr President; As Gillian Gibbons is pardoned, Amnesty International's KATE ALLEN asks Sudan to stop the mass murder and rape in Darfur.(News)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 4, 2007
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Byline: By KATE ALLEN, director of Amnesty International UK
GILLIAN Gibbons, the teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her students name a teddy bear Mohammed, is now free and in the safe hands of British officials.
Thanks to the swift diplomacy of Muslim peers Lord Ahmed and Baroness Warsi, Ms Gibbons' ordeal is over after she was granted a full presidential pardon yesterday.
This is great news. Her trial and sentencing was a mockery, and she should never have been imprisoned in the first place.
But while President Omar al-Bashir is to be ...