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BREAKING. Danny's valiant parents Ruth + @YudaPearl will file a "review" of the shocking Supreme Court ruling freeing Omar Sheikh+3. Their statement⬇️The 4 men are NOT yet free. Call your lawmakers in Pakistan, the US, the world to support Danny's parents. #JusticeForDanielPearl
2/Ruth+ @yudapearl: "The Pearl family intends to file a review petition against the illegal and unjust majority decision of the Supreme Court of Pakistan to ensure that Ahmed Omer Sheikh and his coconspirators are brought to justice for the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl."
3/Ruth+ @yudapearl: "It is beyond belief that Ahmed Omar Sheikh--who, after 18 years of lies, had finally admitted in a handwritten letter to the court his role in the kidnapping for ransom of Daniel Pearl--has been given a clean slate and let loose once again upon the world..."
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1/ NEWS FLASH. From @SaeedShah @WSJ: “Pakistani authorities were seeking new legal means to continue to detain the man convicted in 2002 as the mastermind of the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, officials said.”
wsj.com/articles/pakis…
2/ “...Faiz Shah, the prosecutor general for the southern province of Sindh, where the case was heard Thursday, said that Mr. Sheikh would remain behind bars. He said that an earlier ruling by the Supreme Court would be used to ensure that.” The order: drive.google.com/file/d/189W34o…
3/ Writes @WSJ @SaeedShah:
“He will be detained,” said Sindh prosecutor Faiz Shah.

“Pakistan, which faces possible intl financial sanctions over lax controls on terrorist groups in the country, has been embarrassed by the resurfacing of the Pearl case...analysts say.” Image
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ALERT In hours starting 12 PM ET Fri night / 9 AM Karachi time, Omar Sheikh + 3 men convicted in Danny Pearl's murder will try to walk out of jail. Ruth + @YudaPearl ask the govt of Pakistan to stop this miscarriage of #JusticeforDanielPearl. cc: @imrankhanpti @realdonaldtrump
1/How did we get here? Born in 1973, Omar Sheikh, a British-Pakistani dropout from the London School of Economics became radicalized at Salafi mosques in London in the early 1990s. He vowed to become a jihadi. He went to Pakistan to wage jihad. And kidnap. theguardian.com/world/2005/feb…
2/ 1994, Omar Sheikh went to India for a militant group, and he used the fake name "Rohit Sharma" to kidnap four tourists, including an American, Bela Nuss, from Connaught Place in Delhi. He was caught by Delhi police and sent to Tihar Jail. nytimes.com/1994/11/01/wor…
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1/ Christmas Eve, Sindh High Court Judge KK Agha shocked us by issuing get-out-of-jail-free cards to the 4 men convicted in Daniel Pearl's murder. The govt of Pakistan is fighting that ruling. This is what Danny's brave parents, Ruth and @yudapearl say...
2/ From Ruth and @yudapearl: "We refuse to believe that the Pakistani government and the Pakistani people will let such a travesty of justice tarnish the image and legacy of Pakistan."

The new judicial decision ⬇️ Download here: drive.google.com/file/d/1uAoZhQ…
3/ We believe our sons murderers should remain in jail because of the Supreme Court Appeals, and we are also heartened to hear the Government of Pakistan is filing an appeal against the latest release order so that our son's murderers will remain in jail and justice will prevail.
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You could hear a pin drop in court today. Faisal Siddiqi, attorney for Ruth+Judea Pearl, had to end conspiracy theories that Daniel Pearl is alive. He told judges: autopsy + DNA reports confirm Danny's murder. The reports are uploaded here for journalists.
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Warning: The details in this report of Daniel Pearl’s murder are of a very sensitive nature. They underscore the heinous nature of this crime against humanity and the urgent need for #justiceforDanielPearl. The DNA report is here, public for the 1st time: drive.google.com/drive/folders/…
Warning: We know that Danny's killers beheaded him, in this crime now repeated from Iraq to France. When his remains were found, the police saw that his killers were even more brutal. The link to the autopsy report is inside my article. asrainvestigates.substack.com/p/family-attor…
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Dec 2, Day 2 in trial in Pakistan to realize #justiceforDanielPearl. Thank you @AP @awanyousaf for your video reporting. @GovtofPakistan @SindhGovt1 lawyer Farooq Naek speaks to media. Ruth & @yudapearl lawyer Faisal Siddiqi arrives.
Thread👇🏽 from @AnasMallick’s notes in court.
“The Daniel Pearl murder was a strain of international terrorism,” Farooq Naek, Sindh govt special prosecutor, told judges. He laid out how Omar Sheikh used a fake identify to trap Danny. Danny was chasing a story that a cleric, 👇🏽Sheikh Gilani, directed shoe bomber Richard Reid. Image
Omar Sheikh was sitting in the office of a jihadi org in Islamabad when the phone rang. “Arif” answered. A journalist Danny had hired asked if anyone knew how to find Sheikh Gilani. Omar heard. He faked being a student of Gilani. He set up to meet Danny at the Akbar Intl Hotel👇🏽 Image
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🚨BREAKING🚨Friends around the world, Lawyers for Daniel Pearl's inspiring parents Ruth & @yudapearl go to court TUES Sept 15, to keep in jail the 4 men convicted in the tragic murder of Danny. He was a beautiful soul.
May we realize #JusticeforDanielPearl
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For your resilience, thank you to the brave journalists in Pakistan. This was Danny: After 9/11, he tried to check into a sold-out Pearl Continental in Peshawar, and he told me later, "Do you think they would have given me a room if I had said I was the owner?" He loved life. Image
Lawyers for Daniel Pearl's family will be in court Tues Sept. 15 at 2 PM in Islamabad. That's 4 AM on Tues in NYC.
Please send them blessings to realize #justiceforDanielPearl and his family. The world will be watching.

For your planning @diaahadid!
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2002: Omar Sheikh had Daniel Pearl pose with a @dawn_com paper for a "sign of life" photo he sent with a ransom note.

2020: Thank you to Dawn for publishing a letter from Ruth & @yudapearl to Pakistan on why they seek #JusticeForDanielPearl.

Readers ⬇️⬇️⬇️ respond with ❤️❤️❤️
"Justice must prevail," says @dawn_com reader Rizwan Haider. "These murderers must spend [the] rest of their lives behind bars. It's a test case for authorities in Pakistan to show their seriousness if they want to curb this evil ideology." #JusticeForDanielPearl Image
Says @dawn_com reader Wajahat Ali: "My prayers are with the parents. I hope the Supreme Court will heed."

Adds reader Asim Shahzad: "I fully support this and hope that justice will be delivered by the Supreme Court."

Read the Pearls' op-ed at this link: dawn.com/news/1554930/w… Image
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🚨thread BREAKING NEWS. MUST WATCH. Daniel Pearl's parents, Ruth & @YudaPearl, file appeal in Pakistan's Supreme Court, challenging a ruling that would free 4 men convicted in their son's murder 18 years ago. They make their plea in heartbreaking video that is courage incarnate.
Daniel Pearl's parents appeal a Sindh High Court ruling, overturning the conviction of Omar Sheikh, Salman Saqib, Fahad Naseem & Sheik Adil for Pearl's kidnapping and murder. Download the appeals here. Read their statements here. Download their video here. medium.com/@dpearlproject…
Daniel Pearl's parents are standing up for a free press in Pakistan and elsewhere, so no journalist has to fear losing their lives. And all journalists can live and work in safety.
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