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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Graig Graziosi

Two men wrongly convicted of killing Malcolm X and jailed for two decades will receive $26m settlement

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New York City will pay $26m to settle lawsuits with a pair of men who were wrongly convicted in the 1965 assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X.

Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were both exonerated in the killing last year when a judge determined the men’s journey through the US legal system has been plagued with "serious miscarriages of justice."

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