{"id":322,"date":"2020-12-24T09:31:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T09:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=322"},"modified":"2020-12-24T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T09:40:38","slug":"pakistan-court-orders-immediate-release-of-daniel-pearl-murder-accused-omar-sheikh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2020\/12\/24\/pakistan-court-orders-immediate-release-of-daniel-pearl-murder-accused-omar-sheikh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan court orders immediate release of Daniel Pearl murder accused Omar Sheikh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-327\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/daniel-pearl-case-daily-rapid-news-pakistan.jpg\" alt=\"daniel-pearl-case-daily-rapid-news-pakistan\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/daniel-pearl-case-daily-rapid-news-pakistan.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/daniel-pearl-case-daily-rapid-news-pakistan-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\nThe Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday declared \u201cnull and void\u201d the detention of the prime suspect in the murder of\u00a0Daniel Pearl, the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0reporter who was beheaded in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>On April 2, 2020, the court heard their appeals against the sentence after 18 years and\u00a0acquitted Sheikh, Saqib and Nasim.\u00a0It commuted Sheikh\u2019s death sentence to seven years and fined him Rs2,000,000. Sheikh has already spent 18 years in prison on death row and his seven-year sentence for kidnapping was counted as time served.<\/p>\n<p>The men were, however, detained under Section 11 EEEE (preventive detention for inquiry) of the Anti-Terrorism Act. According to the law, the government may issue preventive detention of any person accused of terrorism for a period of 90 days and it cannot be challenged in court. The first notification was issued the day the men were acquitted and the second one three months after\u00a0they completed their detention period.<\/p>\n<p>The court has ordered their immediate release, adding that their names should be put on the no-fly list.<\/p>\n<p>These men have been in rotting in jail for the 18 years without committing any crime, said a judge.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal, was abducted and beheaded while he was in Pakistan investigating a story in 2002 on the links between the country&#8217;s powerful spy agency ISI and al-Qaeda.<\/p>\n<p>British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and his three aides were convicted and sentenced in the abduction and murder case of Pearl. In April, they were exonerated by the Sindh High Court and an appeal against their acquittal is being heard in the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday declared \u201cnull and void\u201d the detention of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>SHC sets aside govt&#039;s detention orders for accused in Daniel Pearl case<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"On April 2, 2020, the court heard their appeals against the sentence after 18 years and\u00a0acquitted Sheikh, 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