Teddy row teacher due back in UK / Sudan pardons U.K. teacher in teddy bear case

Links to various items from over the past day that update, most recently, Sunday night's batch (updated to add a few more items):

(Andrew Heavens has a related new post; also, Drima has posts both concerning her release and concerning comments from his earlier posts. - EJM)

From the BBC...

• "Teddy row teacher due back in UK" (latest version of basic story)
• "Teddy row teacher returning home" (earlier version)
• "Teddy row teacher freed from jail" (still-earlier version)
• "Teacher freed: Reaction in quotes"
• "In pictures: Release of Gillian Gibbons"
• "Red faces in Sudan over teddy row" (analysis feature by Jonah Fisher)
• "Racially motivated vandals probed"

From the AP...

• "Sudan President Pardons British Teacher" (by Alfred de Montesquiou)
• "Family gathers in Liverpool to welcome teacher home"

From AFP...

• "Pardoned British 'teddy' teacher set for London arrival"
• "Pardoned British 'teddy' teacher leaves Sudan"
• "Brown hails teacher's pardon in Sudan"

From DPA...

• "British 'teddy bear' teacher leaves Sudan after presidential pardon"
• "Brown welcomes release of 'teddy bear' teacher"
• "End of 'teddy bear row' defuses potential crisis" (feature)

By Reuters' Opheera McDoom

From the UK's "Guardian"...

• "Teacher jailed in Sudan over naming of teddy bear flies home after president grants pardon" (from Tuesday's print edition)
• "Teddy row teacher on her way home" (earlier, Web-only version)
• "'Muhammad' teddy teacher to be freed" ("news blog" post)

A "Comment Is Free" post by Hassan bin Talal

From the UK's "Independent"

From the UK's "Times"...

• "Freed teacher Gillian Gibbons: 'I just want to relax'" (from Tuesday's print edition)
• "Teddy bear teacher flies out of Sudan" (earlier version)
• "‘Strange old week’ for Gillian Gibbons’s family"

From the UK's "Telegraph"...

• "Teddy bear teacher leaves Sudan after pardon"
• "Teddy teacher to return to UK within hours" (earlier version)
• "Pardoned teddy teacher 'sorry' for distress" (still-earlier version)
• "Omar al-Bashir's teddy bear ploy" (commentary by David Blair)

From the "Financial Times"

From the "Scotsman"/"Edinburgh Evening News"...

• "Teddy-row teacher flies home after pardon from the president"
• "Teddy row teacher tells of sadness after pardon"
• "Police probe vandalism linked to teddy teacher row"

From the UK's "Herald"...

• "Jailed teacher leaves Sudan after pardon"
• "Freed teacher ‘elated to be on her way home from Sudan’"

From the UK's "Daily Star"

From the UK's "Daily Express"

From the UK's "Metro"

From the UK's "Sun"

From the UK's "Evening Standard"

From the UK's "Northern Echo"

From the "Bradford [UK] Telegraph and Argus"

From the "Bucks [UK] Free Press"

From the "Shields [UK] Gazette"

From the "Liverpool Echo"

From the "Liverpool Daily Post"...

• "Teddy row teacher freed from Sudan jail"
• "Family's joy at Gillian Gibbons' release from Sudan prison"

From the UK's "Daily Record"

From the UK's "Daily Post"

From the UK's "Daily Echo"

From the "Irish Examiner"

From the "Irish Independent"

From ITN

A video report from the UK's Channel 4

From Sky News (UK)

From politics.co.uk

By Sam Dealey of "Time"

From Bloomberg...

• "Sudan Frees U.K. Teacher Accused in Teddy Bear Case"
• "Brown `Delighted' That Sudan Will Free U.K. Teacher"

From Panapress

From VOA...

• "British Teacher Released in Sudan" (by Tendai Maphosa)
• "Bashir Pardon Wins Release for Britain's Teddy Bear Teacher" (interview of Eric Reeves by Howard Lesser)

From the "New York Times"...

• "Sudan’s President Pardons British Teacher" (by Jeffrey Gettleman)
• "Lashing Justice" (editorial)

From the "New York Daily News"

A Web-only "Christian Science Monitor" update

From CNN...

• "Teddy row teacher leaves Sudan"
• "Grudge sparked teddy bear crisis"

From Al Jazeera

From EuroNews

From CTV

From CityTV

From ABC News (U.S.)

From PBS "NewsHour"

From Radio New Zealand

From Radio Australia

From Sky News Australia...

• "Teacher leaves Sudan"
• "Mia's Sudan fund"

By Ethan Cole of the "Christian Post"

By Maria Mackay of the UK's "Christian Today"

From AKI

A column by Anne Applebaum of the "Washington Post"

A "Wall Street Journal" editorial

A "Bangkok Post" editorial

An "Asharq Alawsat" op-ed by Al-Arabiya's Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed

An "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" op-ed by the American Islamic Fellowship's Kelly Wentworth

An op-ed from the UK's "Mirror" by AI UK's Kate Allen

A "Gulf News" op-ed by Linda Heard

A "Khaleej Times" op-ed by Sumayyah Meehan

A "Middle East Times" editorial

Online-reader comments from the Melbourne "Herald Sun"

"Toronto Star" letters to the editor

A New America Media piece by Hana Baba

A Slate "Explainer" column by Michelle Tsai

A "Political Machine" post by Justin Paulette

A "Passport" post by David Bosco of "Foreign Policy"

A blog post by McClatchy's Shashank Bengali