Acquittal and release of Dr. Younus Shaikh.* Humanists and human rights advocates worldwide celebrated the acquittal and release of Dr. Younus Shaikh on November 21, 2003. Held in solitary confinement solitary confinement n. the placement of a prisoner in a Federal or state prison in a cell away from other prisoners, usually as a form of internal penal discipline, but occasionally to protect the convict from other prisoners or to prevent the prisoner from causing in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, under sentence of death for blasphemy, the educator was finally retried re·tried v. Past tense and past participle of retry. , after appealing an earlier conviction. Representing himself at the retrial retrial n. a new trial granted upon the motion of the losing party, based on obvious error, bias or newly-discovered evidence. (See: newly-discovered evidence) , Shaikh confined his defense to legal arguments, resulting in the judge declaring the charges against him to be baseless. |
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