Two men convicted of the murder of anti-racism activist Malcolm X to be acquitted

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Two men convicted in 1966 of the murder a year earlier in New York of the activist Malcom X, one of the greatest exponents of the fight against racism, will be acquitted, announced this Wednesday the office of the Manhattan district attorney,

.

"These men were not entitled to the justice they deserved," Prosecutor Vance, whose office confirmed there will be a press conference Thursday, told The New York Times after

"unjustified convictions overturned."

for the death of Malcom X.

The trial for the death of the black leader in February 1965 was

, according to an investigation carried out by the Manhattan district attorney's office and the attorneys for both convicts, cited by the New York newspaper.

After 22 months.

the investigation concluded that both the

(federal police) and the

withheld evidence that, if made public, would likely have led to the acquittal of the two men who spent decades in jail for a crime they did not commit.

Malcom X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, as he was about to speak at a rally at the

in Manhattan, at the height of his popularity for his fight for equality and human rights.

The review of the case came after the presentation of a documentary on the murder and a new biography of the activist that, however, does not identify the murderers or reveal if there was a possible conspiracy by the police or the government to silence him.

Nor does it clarify why the police and the government were unable to prevent the crime, when evidence shows that

.

After years of demanding justice, the names of Aziz, 83, who was released in 1985, and Islam, who was released from prison in 1987 and died in 2009, will finally be cleared.

A third man,

80-year-old

, confessed to the murder and was released in 2010. During the 1966 trial, he claimed that Aziz and Islam were innocent.

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