Two men convicted of killing Malcolm X to be exonerated

Two of the three men convicted in the assassination of Malcolm X are set to be cleared (AP)

Two men convicted in the assassination of civil rights icon Malcolm X are set to be exonerated after spending decades maintaining their innocence.

Muhammad Aziz, now 83, and the late Khalil Islam were convicted in 1966, after a trial in which authorities withheld evidence favourable to the defence, said their lawyers, the Innocence Project and civil rights lawyer David Shanies.