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January 29, 2021

Pakistan Court Rules to Free Men Convicted of Kidnapping and Murdering Journalist Daniel Pearl
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Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled to release four men convicted of
kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in
2002. His attackers famously recorded his beheading and sent the video
to U.S. officials. The court cited insufficient evidence and
inconsistencies in the case which was re-examined last year. The White
House described the decision to release the perpetrators as "an affront
to terrorism victims everywhere" and administration officials said they
would seek to put one of the men, British national Ahmed Omar Saeed
Sheikh, on trial in the U.S.


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