In 1966 Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam were wrongly convicted for the assassination of Malcolm X, even though Mujahid Abdul Halim, who was arrested at the scene, confessed to being one of the shooters and maintained that Aziz and Islam were innocent. They were convicted at trial despite contradictory eyewitness testimonies and having alibis. In 2021 a reinvestigation of the case held that they were wrongfully convicted and found that the FBI withheld documents and testimony that likely would have resulted in an innocent verdict.
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