Wall Street Journal reporter, was submitted to the Supreme Court nearly two weeks ago. AP/ File
After 18 years of denial, the main accused, convicted and later acquitted, in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl has told a court he played a minor” role in the killing, the Pearl family lawyer said on Wednesday.
A letter handwritten by Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh in 2019, in which he admits limited involvement in the killing of the
Wall Street Journal reporter, was submitted to the Supreme Court nearly two weeks ago. It wasn t until Wednesday that Sheikh s lawyers confirmed their client wrote it.
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Faisal Siddiqi, a lawyer for the family of Daniel Pearl, an American reporter who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, listens a question of a reporter during talks to media at the Supreme Court in Islamabad, Pakistan, after a Wednesday hearing in the case. (AP Photo/Waseem Khan)
ISLAMABAD (AP) After 18 years of denial, the Pakistani suspect convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl has told a court he played a “minor” role in the killing, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday.
A letter handwritten by Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheikh in 2019, in which he admits limited involvement in the killing of the Wall Street Journal reporter, was submitted to Pakistan’s Supreme Court nearly two weeks ago. It wasn’t until Wednesday that Sheikh’s lawyers confirmed their client wrote it.
Pakistani suspect admits to role in Daniel Pearl’s beheading
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Faisal Siddiqi, a lawyer for the family of Daniel Pearl, an American reporter for the Wall Street Journal who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan, talks to journalists after an appeal hearing in the case, at the Supreme Court, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. In a dramatic turn of events, Ahmad Saeed Omar Sheik, a man convicted and later acquitted in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl admitted a minor role in his death, upending 18 years of denials, the Pearl family lawyer said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Waseem Khan)