Lord Ahmed, Britain’s first Muslim peer, is due to meet President el-Bashir of Sudan today in an effort to secure the release of a primary school teacher jailed for blasphemy.
A source close to the Sudanese Government said that it would consider offering Gillian Gibbons a pardon so she could fly home within days.
Ms Gibbons was being held at a secret location last night after hundreds of protesters, some of them wielding knives and ceremonial swords, called for her execution.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article2980644.ece
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/01/sudan.teacher/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2007/12/01/2007-12-01_teddy_bear_barbarism-3.html
http://www.20min.ch/news/ausland/story/16360060