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A British public schoolboy-turned militant who spent 18 years on death row after being convicted of killing an American journalist, was freed by a court in Pakistan.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh could be free imminently after Sindh High Court decreed he should not be detained any longer.
Sheikh's murder conviction for killing
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was overturned in April 2020 after the court decided he was guilty only of kidnap, with a seven-year sentence.
The decision prompted an outcry from the US government and Pearl's family, and the Sindh government immediately detained Sheikh, 47, again, using public order laws.