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By: Real America News Updated 30 Oct 2022, 21: 20 pm EDT
New York City will pay 26 million dollars in compensation to settle a lawsuit for wrongful convictions for the murder of Malcolm X of two men who were exonerated at the end of last year, according to The New York Times on Sunday.
The two men, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, each passed more than 20 years in prison after his hasty arrests and a trial that was based on questionable evidence in one of the most notorious murders of the civil rights era.
His exonerations last November (Islam’s was posthumous) came as allegations of racism and discrimination in the criminal justice system again sparked national protests and political debate.
The newspaper indicates that the complaint was filed last July by representatives of Muhammad’s families A. Aziz and Khalil Islam, who spent two decades behind bars after a trial now considered unfair by the authorities.
The compensation will be divided between both parties, as indicated by the lawyer of the two men, David Shanies, and a spokesman for the City Law Department, Nick Paolucci, who noted the importance of compensation for the wrongful convictions, overturned in 2021 after investigation.
Aziz, from 100 years old, who has been haunted by the murder accusation all his life since he was paroled in 1985, was exonerated of the crime last December by a New York court that did the pro posthumously with Islam, released in 1987 and died in 2009.
Aziz had claimed 40 millions for the role played in his conviction by the New York police, who hid evidence that he was exonerated and that, as the city itself has admitted, he committed serious violations of the law that prevented a fair trial.
American civil rights leader Malcolm X lost his life on 21 February 1965, when three men shot him as he was about to make a speech in an auditorium in Manhattan, New York.
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