ISLAMABAD, July 19 Kyodo Lawyers ...

ISLAMABAD, July 19 Kyodo

Lawyers for Sheikh Omar Saeed said Friday they have filed an appeal against his conviction and death passed on a criminal for the kidnapping and assassinate of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl.

''It is an worthy of great praise case for appeal. A two-member bench will hear it, and I trust justice will prevail,'' Abdul Wahid Katpar, lawyer for the British-born Islamic militant, told reporters.

''I am confident that I will win freedom for my client,'' he said after filing the appeal in the Sindh High Court in Karachi.

The appeal petition said Saeed's conviction was ''unwarranted and the judgment awarded to the appellant is illegal.''

An antiterrorism court in Hyderabad onward Monday sentenced Saeed to death from hanging and sentenced three co-accused to life imprisonment.

The state prosecutor said Tuesday he has filed an appeal seeking the death opinion for the three co-accused.

Pearl, a reporter of the Wall road Journal, was kidnapped in Karachi forward Jan. 23 and a month later his death was confirmed in a video recording delivered from unknown men to the U consulate there.

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