Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case
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The Sudanese teddy bear blasphemy case concerns the 2007 arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, and subsequent release of British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons, who taught middle-class Muslim and Christian children at Unity High School in Khartoum, Sudan. She was convicted of insulting Islam by allowing her class of six-year-olds to name a teddy bear "Muhammad".
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See also
- Freedom of religion in Sudan
- Mariam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, sentenced to death for apostasy in Sudan
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