A man exonerated last November in the 1965 killing of civil rights leader Malcolm X has sued New York City after it admitted to have wrongly branded him a murderer.
Muhammad Aziz, 84, is seeking US$40 million for the two decades he spent in prison and more than 55 years of being wrongly blamed, saying it caused "immense and irreparable" damage to him and his family.A similar $40 million lawsuit was also filed in Brooklyn federal court by the estate of co-defendant Khalil Islam, who spent 22 years in prison and has also been exonerated.
"But we want to hold government officials accountable for misconduct that led to their wrongful convictions and decades of living with the stigma of being labeled Malcolm X's murderers."Mayor Eric Adams, a former police captain, in a statement said the city was reviewing the lawsuits.Malcolm X became prominent as the voice of the Nation of Islam, which espoused Black separatism, before leaving in 1964 and angering some of its followers as his views moderated.
A third man, Mujahid Halim, was also convicted for the shooting. He testified that Aziz and Islam were innocent. Halim was paroled in 2010.
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