Pakistan court overturns convictions of those imprisoned for murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl
Pakistani police surround handcuffed Omar Saeed Sheikh as he comes out of a court in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on March 29, 2002. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A regional Pakistani court on Thursday overturned theThe ruling by two judges on the High Court of Sindh province can still be appealed to Pakistan’s Supreme Court.
“As per the court’s judgment, Omar Saeed Sheikh has been found guilty of kidnapping and not of murder. The accused was in jail for 20 years,” the defendants’ lawyer Khawaja Naveed told The Washington Post. Saeed had been sentenced to death for Pearl’s murder, but now with just a seven-year sentence for kidnapping, he could be released, given the 18 years he has already served.The three other men convicted with Saeed — Fahad Naseem, a computer expert; Salman Saqib, a religious activist; and Sheikh Adil, a police officer — were ordered released by the court.The kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Pearl in January 2002 shocked the world at the time.
Pearl was told he was meeting with the radical cleric when instead he was kidnapped by militants organized by Saeed, a British-born Pakistani. According to the , 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed then took over the operation and filmed the beheading of Pearl for al-Qaeda propaganda purposes.In 2014, the radical Islamic State group filmed the beheadings of a number of its hostages, including journalist James Foley.
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