Links to many, many stories (and some other items) from over the past day that update, most recently, the previous batch:
From AFP...
- "Sudan jails British 'teddy' teacher for 15 days" (primary story)
- "Britain seeks 'swift resolution' to Sudan teddy row"
- "US: 'Mohammed' teddy bear case 'outrageous'"
- "Teacher in Sudan made 'innocent mistake': Miliband"
From Reuters...
- "British teacher jailed for 15 days in Sudan" (primary story; by Opheera McDoom)
- "British teacher at Khartoum court in teddy bear case" (earlier version; also by Opheera McDoom)
- "Britain 'disappointed' by Sudan court decision"
- "British Muslim groups back teddy bear teacher" (sidebar)
From the AP...
- "Briton Convicted in Teddy Bear Case" (primary story; by Alfred De Montesquiou)
- "UK condemns Sudanese teddy bear sentence, summons Sudanese ambassador"
From the BBC...
- "UK seeks teacher release in Sudan" (latest basic story)
- "UK teacher goes to court in Sudan" (earlier version)
- "Teddy row teacher verdict reaction"
- "Bloggers condemn Sudan for arrest" (BBC Monitoring item)
"Comment Is Free" posts...
- "Lessons in colonialism: Gillians Gibbons' plight in Sudan reminds me of my own education there: fifty years on, has anything changed?" (by Yvonne Roberts)
- "No picnic in Sudan: A primary school teacher has been caught in the crossfire of Sudan's changing polity, a good smokescreen for the country's ills" (by Meera Selva)
From the UK's "Independent"...
- "Sudanese court sentences teacher to 15 days in jail" (primary story)
- "Attitude of West fuels hardliners" (related semi-featrue; by Steve Bloomfield)
From the UK's "Times"...
- "Mohamed teddy bear teacher, Gillian Gibbons, is spared lash but gets 15 days in jail" (primary story; from Friday's print edition)
- "British teacher sentenced to 15 days in Sudan jail" (earlier, Web-only version)
- "A nod but no wink: ruling to appease protesters on street" (related "World Briefing" column by
From the UK's "Telegraph"...
- "Teddy row teacher could be home soon" (primary story)
- "A teddy bear called Mohammed" (editorial)
A video report from the UK's Channel 4
From the "Liverpool Daily Post"
From the UK's "Evening Standard"
From the Press Association...
- "Sudan teddy row teacher jailed"
- "Miliband concerned over sentence"
- "Colleague prompted teacher trial"
- "Embassy barred from teacher trial"
From politics.co.uk...
- "Miliband emerges from Sudanese meeting"
- "Sudanese lawyer gives view on Gibbons case"
- "Govt issues tempered response"
- "Johnson: Reaction of Sudanese authorities 'demented'"
- "Muslim Council deplores arrest"
From Bloomberg...
- "U.K. Teacher Sentenced to 15 Days in Sudanese Jail" (primary story)
- "U.K. Relays `Concerns' to Sudan Ambassador Over Teacher's Trial" (from earlier)
By Jeffrey Gettleman of the "New York Times"
From CNN (partly by Andrew Heavens)
From the "New York Daily News" (composite story)
A Web-only "Maclean's" interview with Tarek Fatah
A "First Person" post from "The First Post"
A "Political Machine" post by Eric Schulzke
An SHNS-distributed column by Dale McFeatters








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