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Sudanese ambassador called on

Last Modified: 28 Nov 2007
By: Victoria Macdonald, Nima Elbagir

Gillian Gibbons, from Liverpool, has spent three nights in custody after being arrested for alleged blasphemy.

The foreign secretary has called in the Sudanese ambassador after a British teacher was charged with insulting religion and inciting hatred after allowing pupils at a school in Khartoum to name a teddy bear Mohammed.

Gillian Gibbons, from Liverpool, has spent three nights in custody after being arrested for possible blasphemy - and faces 40 lashes, a fine or a year in prison if convicted.

A pupil at the school has leapt to her defence, saying he'd recommended the toy should be called Mohammed because that was his own name.