Meter55 years later Assassinate In a statement by the American civil rights activist Malcolm X, the convictions of the two men were overturned. As New York prosecutor Cyrus Vance announced on Wednesday, the convictions of Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam will be cancelled. In 1966, both were sentenced to life imprisonment.
“These people don’t get the justice they deserve,” Vance told the newspaper New York Times“We recognize the error, the seriousness of the error.”
According to the report, the Manhattan Attorney’s Office and the lawyers of the two men conducted a 22-month investigation into the case.They discovered that the prosecutor, the FBI, and the New York police had withheld evidence after the murder of Malcolm X, which could have caused Aziz and Islam Will cause.
Aziz, now 83, was released from prison in 1985. Islam was released in 1987 and died in 2009. For the murder of Malcolm X in 1965, Thomas Hagen, alias Mujahid Abdul Halim, was also convicted the following year. This admitted his crime in the process, but described the other two as innocent. The 80-year-old was released in 2010.
The case reopened after the Netflix documentary was broadcast
All criminals belong to an Islamic country, a black Muslim movement that severed ties with Malcolm X. On February 21, 1965, the civil rights activist was shot and killed by three attackers while performing in Harlem, New York.
The reinvestigation of the case was in the Netflix documentary “Who Killed Malcolm X?” 》Started afterwards. Prosecutor Vance announced a press conference on Thursday.
Malcolm X was one of the most influential figures in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. But it is not indisputable, because it believes that the use of force is legal under certain circumstances. In 1992, director Spike Lee created a movie monument for him in the play “Malcolm X” starring Denzel Washington.
