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Pakistan Supreme Court Frees Islamist Accused Of Beheading Journalist Daniel Pearl

January 28, 2021
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KARACHI, Pakistan, Jan 28 (Reuters) – A panel of three judges of Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, an Islamist accused of beheading U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl, a government lawyer said.

Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, left, was the prime suspect in the murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, left, was the prime suspect in the murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, left, was the prime suspect in the murder of Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl./Reuters Photographer / Reuters

“By a majority of two to one, they have acquitted all the accused persons and ordered their release,” a provincial attorney general, Salman Talibuddin, told Reuters in a text message.

Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, 38, was described by his family as "a gentle soul." He was murdered in Pakistan af
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, 38, was described by his family as “a gentle soul.” He was murdered in Pakistan after being kidnapped in Karachi in 2002./

Sheik, the main suspect in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter, had received the death penalty.


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