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Malcolm X

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Published date22 November 2021
Ellen Biben, a Manhattan judge, has dismissed the convictions of Mohammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam. Their lawyers and the prosecutors submitted that "renewed investigation" had found evidence that undermined the case against the men. This gave rise to the suspicion that the authorities had withheld some of what they knew. We do not know if the fresh evidence is conclusive.

"The event that has brought us to court today should never have occurred," Aziz told the court. "I am an 83- year-old man who was victimized by the criminal justice system. The conviction has been reversed after the death of Islam, one of the convicts. Most particularly, this has pained Islam's sons, Ameen Johnson and Shahid Johnson. In his immediate response, Ameen said his father would have been ecstatic had he heard that his name had been cleared. "His reputation meant a lot to him", the son said. "And now we don't have to watch over our backs, worrying about any repercussions from anybody who thought that he might have been the one who killed Malcolm X."

Aziz and Islam, who maintained their innocence from the start in the 1965 killing, were paroled in the 1980s. Islam died in 2009. "There can be no question that this is a case that cries out for justice," Judge Biben said. It would be pertinent to recall that Malcolm...

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