Wrongful Conviction

A man who was wrongly convicted of murdering Malcolm X has brought a $40 million lawsuit against the city of New York. Muhammad Aziz was arrested along with Khalil Islam after the civil rights leader was shot dead at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan on 21 February 1965.

Two men who were wrongfully convicted and served long sentences before being freed are taking their fight for compensation to the European Court of Human Rights, The Times reports. Sam Hallam, 31, and Victor Nealon, in his fifties, argue the law on compensation is incompatible with the right to a fr