Sudan's President, British Delegation to Meet

Sudan's president will meet a British delegation to discuss a possible pardon for a teacher imprisoned in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, a presidential spokesman said. Two Muslim members of British parliament have been in Sudan for two days trying to set up a meeting with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. He is the only one who can pardon Gillian Gibbons, the 54 year old British teacher who has been imprisoned since Thursday. They will meet at 10:30 on Monday morning at the presidential palace. Gibbons was sentenced Thursday to 15 days in prison and deportation for insulting Islam because of allowing her students to give a teddy bear the same name as Islam's revered prophet - a violation under Sudan's Islamic Sharia law.