Word: sudan
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...from the country. But while her alleged crime - permitting her primary students to name a Teddy bear Mohammad - garnered the Khartoum regime a good deal of international condemnation for its radical justice, the charges against Gibbons and her famous bear were incidental to a larger struggle playing out in Sudan - the manipulation of Islam in the pursuit of personal and political power...
With international outrage growing, two British Muslim parliamentarians, Lord Ahmed and Lady Warsi, traveled to Sudan in the hopes of securing her release. The government was amenable. For one thing, an internal investigation by the Sudanese government apparently revealed Khawad's role. Indeed, many members of the political elite expressed private embarrassment over the affair. As the Britons arrived in Khartoum, Gibbons' release seemed all but assured...
Demonstrators wielding ceremonial swords took to the streets after Friday prayers in Sudan's desert capital to vent their anger at an English teacher jailed because her class named a teddy bear Mohammed. A crowd of about 1,000 young men streamed out of mosques to gather outside Khartoum's presidential palace, later marching to the British Embassy and burning newspapers bearing images of 54-year-old Gillian Gibbons. The crowd demanded that the teacher be executed following her conviction on charges of blasphemy. Gibbons was sentenced to 15 days in prison; she had faced a maximum of 40 lashes...
...Baron Ahmed, Britain's first Muslim peer, is due to arrive in Sudan on Saturday morning in an attempt to secure Gibbons' release. But for now she remains locked in a room at a secret location, caught in the middle of the diplomatic wrangle...
...Darfur Action Group (HDAG) members handed out small yellow flyers posing the question: “Do YOU want to work for a company that underwrites GENOCIDE?” The group’s efforts are directed at helping people understand the role UBS plays in genocide in Sudan, said Political Advocacy Chair Trevor J. Bakker ’10. UBS underwrote the initial public offering for PetroChina, a Chinese oil company. PetroChina’s parent company, China National Petroleum Corporation, develops projects that generate funds for the government of Sudan, which is accused of genocide in Darfur...