Pakistani court overturns conviction in death of Daniel Pearl
ISLAMABAD, APR 1 – The murder conviction of a British Pakistani man found guilty of the 2002 kidnapping and killing of journalist Daniel Pearl was overturned by a court in Pakistan on Thursday.
The sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was reduced to seven years in prison for the charge of kidnapping. His lawyer, Khwaja Naveed, says it was expected those years would count as time served. Saeed had spent 18 years in prison in southern Hyderabad on death row.
The court also acquitted three others — Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil, and Salman Saqib — who were accused in the case and had been sentenced to life in prison.
“Justice has been done to my clients,” said Naveed.
Pearl, a journalist for the Wall Street Journal, was abducted and later beheaded on Feb. 1, in Karachi, Pakistan.
He had vanished on Jan. 23 while researching links between Pakistani militants and Richard C. Reid, who was arrested in December on a flight from Paris to Miami with explosives in his shoes.
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