Two men convicted in 1966 for the assassination a year earlier in New York of Malcolm X, a figure in the fight for civil rights, will be exonerated, the Manhattan prosecutor's office announced on Wednesday.
"These men were not given the justice they deserved," Prosecutor Cyrus Vance Jr. told The
New York Times
on Wednesday
, while his office confirmed that a press conference would be held on Thursday on the "Two wrongful convictions overturned for the murder of Malcolm X".
Crucial evidence concealed at the time
According to the
New York Times
, they are Muhammad A. Aziz, 83, released from prison in 1985, and Khalil Islam, released after serving his sentence in 1987 and died in 2009. According to the daily new- Yorkers, "the 22-month investigation conducted jointly by the attorney's office and the two men's attorneys reveals that prosecutors," the FBI, and the New York Police (NYPD) "have concealed crucial evidence which, if they had been known, would probably have led to the acquittal of the two men ”.
In February 2020, after the broadcast of a documentary on Netflix (
Who Killed Malcolm X?
), Cyrus Vance asked his teams to reconsider the file.
“What we can do is recognize this mistake, the seriousness of this mistake,” added Cyrus Vance.
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