Accord­ing to the AP, Gillian Gib­bons has been placed safely on a plane out of Sudan, bound for home. More as story devel­ops. Update: Ms. Gib­bons was appar­ently par­doned by Sudan Pres­i­dent Omar al-​​​​Bashir after two Mus­lim mem­bers of the UK House of Lords flew to Sudan to nego­ti­ate on her behalf. She was par­doned and released to the British embassy in Khar­toum, where­after she was booked on every pos­si­ble flight out of Khar­toum, for secu­rity pur­poses. She was taken to the air­port in an unmarked car and flew to Dubai, where she boarded a flight to Heathrow. She is due to [ . . . ]

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