British schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons arrived back in the UK today after being freed from a Sudanese prison. Ms Gibbons was sentenced last week to 15 days in jail for insulting Islam by naming a teddy bear Muhammad. She won a pardon after the intervention of two UK Muslim peers. One of them, Lord Ahmed, tells me how he helped persuade President Omar al-Bashir to release Ms Gibbons.
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