Karachi (HRNW) A petition has been filed challenging the extended detention of the men accused of kidnapping and murdering Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl.
The petition, filed in the Sindh High Court, has challenged the second notification on the extension of the detention of the men acquitted in the 2002 kidnapping and murder.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Fahad Naseem, Sheikh Adil and Salman Saqib are still in police custody even though their sentences were overturned on April 2, according to lawyer Nadeem Ahmed. They have been in jail for the last 20 years. It is unfair to keep them detained, he said.
The men have been detained under Section 11 EEEE (preventive detention for inquiry) of the Anti-Terrorism Act. According to the law, the government may issue a preventive detention of any person accused of terrorism for a period of 90 days and it cannot be challenged in court. The first notification was issued the day the men were acquitted and second one three months after they completed their detention period.
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