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Article: Teddy bear's name sends teacher to Sudan jail.(AROUND THE WORLD)(Gillian Gibbons)(Brief article)
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- Church & State
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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After international pressure, the Sudanese government allowed a British teacher who had been convicted of insulting Islam to leave the country. The 54-year-old teacher, Gillian Gibbons, caused an uproar after asking her students at a private school in the nation's capital, Khartoum, to name a teddy bear in a class project on animals, The New York Times reported. The class ...
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Article: PEOPLE OF 2007 - GILLIAN GIBBONS
The Sunday Herald;
December 30, 2007 ;
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... ... come up with something like the Gillian Gibbons story - though perhaps no-one would believe the bizarre teddy bear twist at the centre of it. Here ... Mohammed. Almost everyone watching Gillian Gibbons's first press conference when ...
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