BERLIN, May 10: A post-mortem on a Pakistani man who died in a German jail as he awaited trial for assaulting a newspaper editor over sacrilegious cartoons has proved that he committed suicide, prosecutors said here on Wednesday.

Amir Cheema, a 28-year-old student, hanged himself with a noose fashioned from his own clothes in his cell at the Moabit prison in Berlin, the city’s prosecutor’s office said.—AFP