Nairobi, Dec 1: The British teacher in Sudan who let her 7-year-old pupils name a class teddy bear Muhammad was found guilty on Thursday of insulting Islam and sentenced to 15 days in jail and deportation.

Under Sudanese law, the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, could have spent six months in jail and been lashed 40 times. "She got a very light punishment," said Rabie A Atti, a government spokesman. "Actually, it's not much of a punishment at all. It should be considered a warning that such acts should not be repeated."

British officials were furious. The foreign office in London, which had called the whole ordeal "an innocent mistake," summoned the Sudanese ambassador - for the second time in two days.

Protesters demand death for teacher: Scores of Sudanese Muslims, waving green Islamic flags, took to the streets of Khartoum on Friday demanding death for the British teacher.

"No one lives who insults the Prophet," the protesters chanted. At least 1,000 protesters shook their fists or waved banners or ceremonial swords and chanted religious and nationalist slogans after holding Friday prayers.