Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case

The Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case concerns the 2007 arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, and subsequent release of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons, who taught children of middle-class Muslim and Christian families at Unity High School in Khartoum, Sudan.[1] She was convicted of insulting Islam by allowing her class of six-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Muhammad".[2]

  1. ^ Day, Elizabeth (8 December 2007). "'I was terrified that the guards would come in and teach me a lesson'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 September 2013. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference BBC 2007 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).