Demonstrators call for British teacher's death
Updated on 30 November 2007
She was jailed in Sudan for insulting Islam by allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Mohammed. Gillian Gibbons's 15-day sentence was unduly harsh, according to the Foreign Office.
But thousands of demonstrators in Khartoum today disagreed, with some carrying knives and sticks and calling for her execution. The marchers took to the streets after Friday prayers to denounce what they saw as the leniency of the Sudanese court that tried her.
