Pakistan court frees four men convicted in beheading death of journalist Daniel Pearl
Updated Jan 28, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
Daniel Pearl, 38, was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and beheaded in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan.
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Pakistan’s highest court ruled Thursday that four men convicted of kidnapping and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl should be set free.
Pearl, who was working for The Wall Street Journal at the time of the kidnapping, had ties to Western Massachusetts, including stints at the North Adams Transcript, Berkshire Eagle and the then Springfield Union-News in the late 1980s. Pearl, 38, was reporting on Richard Reid, the British terrorist known as the “shoe bomber,” when he was kidnapped in Pakinstan’s Sindh province in 2002.