The city of New York pay to 26 million dollars compensation to close a lawsuit for the unlawful convictions for the murder of Malcolm X of two men who were sacked late last year, the New York Times reported Sunday.

The newspaper, which cites sources of the Administration and judicial documents, reports that the complaint was presented in July by representatives of the families of Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islamwhat happened two decades in prison after a trial now considered unfair by the authorities.

The compensation will be divided between the parties, according to the two men’s lawyer, David Shanies, and a spokesman for the Councilorship of the Municipality, Nick Paolucci, who stressed the importance of compensation for wrong sentences, annulled in 2021 after a search .

Aziz, 84, who has been haunted on murder charges all his life since he was paroled in 1985, was exempt from the crime last December by a New York court who did the same posthumously with Islam, released in 1987 and died in 2009.

Aziz had requested 40 million for the role played by the NYPD in his conviction, which he hid the evidence that cleared him and who, by admission of the same city, committed serious violations of the law that prevented a fair trial.

American civil rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965. three men shot him when he was about to give a speech in an auditorium in Manhattan, New York.

Aziz and Islam were charged and convicted of this crime, and a third man, Mujahid Abdul Halim, also known as Talmadge Hayer or Thomas Hagan, who admitted during the trial that he participated in the murder and he insisted that the other two defendants had nothing to do.

In recent years, New York City has paid several multimillion-dollar settlements to wrongfully convicted people, including the so-called “Central Park Five,” four African Americans and one Hispanic convicted of the high-profile rape of a white woman in 1989. finally exonerated.

Source: EFE

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