Event in commemoration of Daniel Pearl to be held in Yerevan

PanARMENIAN.Net - An event in commemoration of Daniel Pearl will be held in Yerevan on imitative of Narekaci Cultural Center and U.S. Embassy in Yerevan.



Paros Chamber Orchestra conducted by Raffi Mikaelyan will perform.



U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Marie Yovanovitch is expected to attend the event.



Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 - February 1, 2002) was an American-Jewish journalist who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Karachi, Pakistan by al Qaeda terrorists. At the time of his kidnapping, Pearl served as the South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, and was based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He went to Pakistan as part of an investigation into the alleged links between Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and Al Qaeda and Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He was subsequently beheaded by his captors.



In July 2002, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a British national of Pakistani origin, was sentenced to death by hanging for Pearl's abduction and murder.



In March 2007, at a closed military hearing in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said that he had personally beheaded Pearl.