The Pakistani Supreme Court acquitted terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh of the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and released him from custody. A White House spokesman said: “We call on Pakistani courts to correct their choice of law and prosecute Sheikh for the murder of a U.S. citizen and journalist.
According to foreign media reports, Sheikh and three other terrorists accused of kidnapping and killing Perle were acquitted by three judges of Pakistan’s Supreme Court by a 2-1 decision on the 28th.
In 2001, the terrorists in the United States committed the 9/11 incident, Perle was then working for the Wall Street Journal South Asia Regional Office Director, in January 2002 to Karachi to investigate the shoe bomber Raider and open fight and Pakistani intelligence unit (ISI) links, but by the Islamic militant group “National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty” (The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistan) The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty” (The National Movement for the Restoration of Pakistani Sovereignty) kidnapped, the organization claimed that Perle was a CIA agent, and through e-mail lion demanded that the United States release all Pakistani terrorist suspects, the release of F16 warplanes, etc.. 9 days later Perle was beheaded Nine days later, Perle was beheaded and his body was dismembered in 10 horrific pieces.
Last April, the Pakistani High Court reportedly commuted Sheikh’s death sentence to Life imprisonment and acquitted the other three defendants on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The court said the men had been held for 18 years and had “suffered irreparable harm and extreme prejudice. Both the Perle Family and Pakistani authorities appealed to the country’s Supreme Court, but both appeals were rejected.
Today’s decision is a complete travesty of justice, and the release of these killers poses a danger to journalists and the Pakistani people everywhere,” said Faisal Siddiqi, the family’s lawyer, in a statement, according to the report. “We urgently hope that the U.S. government will take the necessary action under the law to correct this unjust decision,” the statement also read. We also hope that the Pakistani authorities will take all necessary steps to rectify this absurd justice. “
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