OP-ED

Bernard-Henri Lévy: The killer of Daniel Pearl must not go free

Published Feb. 3, 2021 at 11:22 am

Khawja Naveed (R), defence lawyer of Omar Sheikh, who was convicted to death sentence over the killing of US journalist Daniel Pearl, speaks to media representatives after a court verdict in Karachi on April 2, 2020. - A Pakistani court on April 2 overturned the death sentence for British-born militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who had been convicted over the 2002 killing of American journalist Daniel Pearl. (Photo by Asif HASSAN / AFP)

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Mr. President,

I am one of those still living who has most extensively investigated the abduction and decapitation, in February 2002, of your fellow American, Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl.