According to the “New York Times”, it is Muhammad A. Aziz, aged 83 and released from prison in 1985, and Khalil Islam, released in 1987 and death in 2009.
Le Monde with AFP
“These men did not have the right to justice they deserved,” said at the New York Times , Wednesday, November 17, the Prosecutor of Manhattan, Cyrus Vance. Rebound in the United States in the assassination case, in 1965, of the figure of the struggle for civil rights, Malcolm X. Two men, sentenced in 1966 for his murder in New York, will be innocent, did know the office of the prosecutor of Manhattan.
The latter also confirmed the holding of a press conference on Thursday on the “cancellation of unjustified convictions of two people for the murder of Malcolm X”. According to the American newspaper, these two men are Muhammad A. Aziz, aged 83 and released from prison in 1985, and Khalil Islam, released after serving his sentence in 1987 and died in 2009.
Concealness of evidence
“The twenty-two months’ survey, conduct jointly by the Office of the Prosecutor and the lawyers of the two men, reveals that prosecutors”, the FBI and the New York Police (NYPD) “have concealed Crucial evidence that, if they had been known, would probably have led to the acquittal of the two men, “says New York Times.
In February 2020, after the broadcast of a documentary on Netflix, entitled “Who Killed Malcolm X?” (“Who killed Malcom X?”), Vance had asked his teams a review of the file. “What we can do is recognize this error, the severity of this error,” he added.