NEW YORK: Two men were found guilty of the murder of 1965 of the leaders of Malcolm X civil rights must be disposed of, one of them annually, in revenue by the US saving miscarriage authority.
Manhattan District Crime Cyrus Vance will hold a press conference on Thursday to announce the exoneration of Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, his office said Wednesday.
Aziz, 83, was sentenced in prison in 1966 but was released in 1985.
Also sentenced to a lifetime, Islam was released in 1987 and died in 2009.
“These people do not get justice they deserve,” Vance said in An interview with the New York Times.
“What we can do is admit errors, the severity of the error.” The newspaper said that the 22-month investigation was carried out together by the Office of the Manhattan District lawyer and a lawyer for the two men found that the prosecutor, the FBI and the New York Police Department held evidence which would have caused the release of the two men.
The third man, Mujahid Abdul Halim, 80, admitted the murder of Malcolm X and was released from prison in 2010.
Halim claimed during their 1966 trial that Aziz and Islam were innocent.
All three were members of the Islamic Black Nationalist Group, which was recently fulfilled by Malcolm X.
Malcolm X was shot dead by three gunmen on February 21, 1965 as he prepared to give a speech at the Manhattan Ballroom.
Halim was detained in a scene with a bullet wound to the foot.
Aziz and Islam were arrested a few days later.
Both denied involvement in murder and giving alibi where they were at the time of the shooting.
Innocence Project According to the Manhattan District Prosecutor’s Office, the Thursday’s press conference will also be attended by civil rights lawyers David Shanies and Barry Scheck, Innocence Project Co-Director.
Shanies and Innocence Projects, non-profit who have secured the exoneration of hundreds of prisoners punished in the United States, collaborated with Vance’s office in investigating the case.
Reviews of this case following the release of the Netflix document “which killed Malcolm X?” The Times said the re-investigation did not identify “who prosecutors now believe really killed Malcolm X, and those who were previously involved but were never arrested dead.” “It also does not reveal the police or the government’s conspiracy to kill him,” said the newspaper.
“It also left questions that were not answered about how and why the police and the federal government failed to prevent the murder.” Considered as one of the most influential Africans in the 20th century along with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X was the advocate of the black rights spoken.
Born Malcolm Little in 1925, he fell into a small crime as a young man and became a godly Muslim follower while in prison.
After his release, he changed his family’s name to “X” as a symbol of his family’s names lost under slavery.
He rose to stand out as a minister and spokesman for the Islamic nation, advocating for black dependence and awards.
He also did not avoid using violence for self-protection.
Disappointed with the Islamic nation, Malcolm X broke away from the group in 1964 and formed a short-lous-old Afro-American unity organization to continue the promotion of the black rights.