worldUpdated: Apr 02, 2020 12:17 ISTBritish-born terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh’s death sentence for the gruesome murder of journalist Daniel Pearl was commuted to seven years in prison by a Pakistan court on Thursday. Three other men convicted of Pearl’s murder have been acquitted and ordered to be freed. The Sindh high court’s verdict, which overturned the 2002 conviction an anti-terrorism court, gave its ruling following appeals by the four convicts. In this, the journalist’s captors forced him to say that he was Jewish before slitting his throat. The high court also dismissed an appeal by the prosecution seeking enhancement of life sentence given to the three other men – Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil.

Source: Hindustan Times April 02, 2020 05:24 UTC