"Muhammad Aziz, Khalil Islam, and their families suffered because of these unjust convictions for more than 50 years," said Shanies said in an email. "The City recognized the grave injustices done ...

Last week, I signed a petition organized by Jewish professors entitled “Not in Our Name,” which denounced the arrest and threatened deportation of recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, who spent decades in prison for the crime, were being exonerated after a nearly two-year investigation by their ...

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Aziz, 83, and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009. Both men have maintained their innocence from the beginning. “This points to the truth that law enforcement over history has often failed to live up to ...

Aziz spent more than 20 years in prison before he was exonerated in 2021 after District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said a 22-month investigation revealed that law enforcement withheld evidence in the ...

Mujahid Abdul Halim, who also went by the names Talmadge Hayer and Thomas Hagan, admitted to shooting Malcolm X but said the other two men -- Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam -- were not involved.

Of the three men initially convicted for the assassination, two were exonerated in 2021: Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil ...

Aziz and Khalil Islam, his office said Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Aziz, 83, was sentenced to life in prison in 1966 but was released in 1985. Also sentenced to life, Islam was released in 1987 ...

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, who spent decades in prison for the crime, were being exonerated after a nearly two-year investigation by their ...