{"id":27481,"date":"2021-01-28T19:14:45","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/28\/daniel-pearl-pakistan-supreme-court-orders-release-of-acquitted-man"},"modified":"2021-01-28T19:14:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:14:45","slug":"daniel-pearl-murder-pakistan-supreme-court-orders-release-of-british-born-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=27481","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Pearl murder: Pakistan supreme court orders release of British-born man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Majority ruling upholds earlier decision to commute sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s supreme court has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamist militant who had been sentenced to death for the murder of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Pearl was kidnapped in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi in January 2002 during an investigation into al-Qaida and beheaded by Islamic militants, with a video of the killing posted online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jan\/28\/daniel-pearl-pakistan-supreme-court-orders-release-of-acquitted-man\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority ruling upholds earlier decision to commute sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed SheikhPakistan\u2019s supreme court has ordered the release of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, the British-born Islamist militant who had been sentenced to death for the murder of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1856,"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":[1316,669,60,61,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daniel-pearl","category-journalist-safety","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481","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\/1856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27481\/revisions\/27482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}