Court overturns conviction in killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl – By Joe Tacopino (New York Post) / April 2 2020
A court in Pakistan on Thursday overturned the death sentence and murder conviction of a British-born militant for the 2002 slaying of journalist Daniel Pearl.
A lawyer for the militant, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, said his client’s sentence had been reduced to seven years in prison for the charge of kidnapping, according to Agence France-Presse.
Sheikh was expected to be released from prison after serving there since 2002.
Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded in Karachi. A video of Pearl’s decapitation was delivered to the US consulate there.
Sheikh was sentenced to death in 2002.
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