{"id":26010,"date":"2020-12-24T21:13:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T12:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/24\/pakistan-court-orders-release-of-man-charged-over-daniel-pearl"},"modified":"2020-12-24T21:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T12:13:19","slug":"pakistan-court-orders-release-of-man-charged-over-daniel-pearl-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26010","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan court orders release of man charged over Daniel Pearl murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a suspect in US journalist\u2019s 2002 killing, had conviction overturned this year<\/p>\n<p>A court in Pakistan has ordered that a British-born Islamist militant charged with the 2002 kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/daniel-pearl\">Daniel Pearl<\/a> should be freed, his defence lawyer has said.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death in 2002 for masterminding Pearl\u2019s murder but the conviction was overturned this year. He has been in jail ever since awaiting the outcome of a series of appeals and legal arguments.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/24\/pakistan-court-orders-release-of-man-charged-over-daniel-pearl\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a suspect in US journalist\u2019s 2002 killing, had conviction overturned this yearA court in Pakistan has ordered that a British-born Islamist militant charged with the 2002 kidnapping and murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1316,60,61,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-pearl","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26012,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions\/26012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}