
The parents of murdered Wall Street Journal journalist, Daniel Pearl, have filed an appeal with Pakistan’s Supreme Court against the acquittal of four men involved in the killing.
Faisal Siddiqi, the Pearl family’s lawyer, disclosed this on Saturday.
Pearl, a New Delhi-based South Asia correspondent for the US newspaper, was kidnapped and beheaded in Karachi in 2002.
“We are standing up for justice not only for our son, but for all our dear friends in Pakistan so they can live in a society free of violence and terror and raise their children in peace and harmony,” Judea Pearl, the US journalist’s father, said in a video statement Saturday.
Siddiqi said that “the decision to free the men in Pearl’s murder is miscarriage of justice.”
Last month, Sindh High Court overturned the death sentence of the man considered to be the mastermind behind the killing.
The court also overturned the life imprisonment of three accomplices.
All four men were supposed to walk free from the jail after the court’s ruling on April 2 but never did.
They were rearrested the next day on a public safety law that allows authorities to detain anyone deemed a threat to public order.
The government of the southern province of Sindh also launched an appeal to the Supreme Court last month to repeal the decision that overturned the murder conviction and the death sentence of Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who holds British and Pakistani citizenship. (dpa/NAN)