- 31 Oct 2022 10:33
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/ ... eceive-36m
I am honestly lost for words. Spending 20 years in prison for a crime you didnt commit. Whow.
The two men whose convictions for the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X were overturned last year will receive $36m from the city and state of New York, their lawyer confirmed. [...]
They were released in the mid-1980s, but it was not until November 2021 that their names were fully cleared by the New York State Supreme Court, which called their convictions almost a half-century ago “a failure of justice”. [...]
He confirmed a report from the New York Times that the city of New York will pay $26m to be split between 84-year-old Aziz and the family of Islam.
The state government of New York will also pay five million dollars each, for a total of $36m in compensation. [...]
For more than half a century, the official record held that three members of the Black nationalist group Nation of Islam – which Malcolm X had recently renounced – shot the iconic 39-year-old leader in front of his wife and children when he arrived to speak at the podium of a Harlem ballroom.
A man with a sawn-off shotgun rushed the stage and shot Malcolm once in the chest. Two others with semi-automatic pistols charged forwards, firing at him. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital with 21 gunshot wounds.
His funeral in Harlem was attended by leading Black civil rights leaders and as many as 30,000 mourners in the streets.
Aziz, Islam and a third man, Mujahid Abdul Halim, were convicted in 1966 – but historians had long cast doubt on that thesis.
Abdul Halim – now 81 and released from prison in 2010 – confessed to the murder but maintained the innocence of the other two.
I am honestly lost for words. Spending 20 years in prison for a crime you didnt commit. Whow.
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