Yesterday British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, was convicted by a Sudanese court for insulting Islam and sentenced to 15 days in prison. She was convicted for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammed. Gibbons wept in court saying that she never meant to bring any offense.

The trial lasted for seven hours and was focused on resolving the case. This case had put Sudan in a difficult position between the angered Britain and the Islamic hard-liners.

According to the defense, the case started due to a school secretary with a grudge.

Muslim clerics demanded that Gibbons should be punished because they think that she is part of a Western plot to insult Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.

Abdel-Khaliq Abdallah, a member of the defense team said that Gibbons was in tears on Thursday when she testified in court.

Abdallah, said that “She said that she never wanted to insult Islam” when she allowed the pupils to name the teddy bear Mohammed.

Gibbons was found guilty for "insulting the faith of Muslims" and received 15 days of jail. After the sentence is served she will be deported to Britain, according to Ali Mohammed Ajab, a human rights lawyer on the defense team, the Associated Press reports.

She escaped the heavier punishment of 40 lashes, a fine and six months in jail.

Prosecutors tried to obtain the heavier punishment inciting religious hatred.

British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, “expressed in the strongest terms” his concern regarding Gibbons’ jail time in a court in Sudan.

Gibbons will have to serve her term at a women’s jail near Khartoum.

The Sudanese ambassador, Omer Siddig, was summoned by Mr. Miliband in a 45-minute meeting to explain the decision. .

After the meeting the Foreign Office said in a statement that there would be other talks in order to obtain a “swift resolution” to the issue.

“During the meeting, which lasted 45 minutes, the Foreign Secretary expressed in the strongest terms our concern at the continued detention of Gillian Gibbons. The Foreign Secretary also spoke to the Sudanese Acting Foreign Minister for 15 minutes on the telephone during the meeting. There will be further contacts overnight and tomorrow in the search for a swift resolution of this issue,” said the Foreign Office, Guardian Unlimited reports.

The director of Gibbons's Unity High School, Robert Boulos, said that since Sunday Gibbons already served five days of jail time so now she would only have to serve ten 10 more.