ISLAMABAD (AP) Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Thursday ordered the release of a Pakistani man convicted and later acquitted in the gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
The court also dismissed an appeal of Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh s acquittal by Pearl’s family and the Pakistani government.
Sheikh has been on death row since his conviction in the death of Pearl in 2002. His attorney said Sheikh “should not have spent one day in jail.”
Attorney Mehmood A. Sheikh, no relation, said the court also ordered the release of three other Pakistanis who had been sentenced to life in prison for their part in Pearl’s kidnapping and death.
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Thursday, January 28, 2021 by Abdul Sattar (NPR)
Wall Street Journal newspaper reporter Daniel Pearl, who was killed by Islamic militants in Pakistan in 2002. The British-born militant Omar Sheikh was sentenced to death for his murder, but Pakistan s top court on Thursday ordered his release.
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Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release on Thursday of a British national who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Four terrorists convicted of kidnapping and beheading Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl are RELEASED including ‘killer’ on death row in Pakistan
Pakistan s Supreme Court today ordered release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been on death row, Fahad Naseem, Syed Salman and Muhammad Adil
Islamist militants were cleared of murder last year but they were held for appeal
Sheikh had been sentenced to death after being found guilty of abduction and murder of Daniel Pearl, 38, in 2002
1.28.21 8:14am
Pakistan s Supreme Court ordered the release on Thursday of a British national who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The decision comes nearly two decades after the journalist s body was found in a shallow grave in the Pakistani port city of Karachi. A videotape showing Pearl s beheading, send to the U.S. consulate, came in the context of the war on terror after Sept. 11, 2001. Pearl s murder became a portent for the cinematic violence committed by Islamic extremist groups in the years after.
The 2-1 decision was on an appeal by the Pearl family and the Pakistani government against the ruling of a provincial court last April that overturned Sheikh s murder conviction and the convictions of three accomplices.