FBI arrests Malcolm X grandson en route to Iran
Muslim civil activist Malcolm Shabazz was reportedly arrested before starting his scheduled visit to Tehran to attend a conference on Hollywoodism, sources outside the United States confirmed on Monday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has refused to provide any information about his whereabouts.
Tehran hosted the third Hollywoodism International Conference, on the sidelines of the 31st Fajr International Film Festival in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday.
Many filmmakers, directors, actors, and movie critics as well as politicians and economists took part in the conference.
Mike Gravel, a former US Senator who attended the conference, condemned Hollywood’s role in imposing imperialistic views on the people of the world.
“Hollywood is just a tool of the American government and European governments to pursue their imperialistic views whether it is in economy...culture…or religion,” Gravel stated.
The first Hollywoodism and Cinema Conference was held in Iran in 2011.
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FOLLOWING UP
By Joseph P. Fried
Delays in Release Of Shabazz Grandson It was another tragedy in a family whose first tragedy resounded around the world. In June 1997, Malcolm Shabazz, the 12-year-old grandson of Malcolm X, set a fire that killed his grandmother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, in her Yonkers apartment. The police said the boy, who had psychiatric problems, had apparently been angry because he did not want to live with his grandmother after having had problems living with his mother, Qubilah Shabazz. Ms. Shabazz, ...
June 24, 2001, Sunday .Longer Term Ordered for Malcolm Shabazz
Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X who set the 1997 fire that killed his grandmother, will spend at least another year in detention — at a more secure institution — because of his recent escapes, a Family Court judge ruled today. ‘’Malcolm’s got a long way to go to convincing all of us that no restrictions at all is appropriate,’’ said the Westchester County Attorney, Alan D. Scheinkman, whose office prosecutes youthful offenders.
August 04, 1999, Wednesday .Malcolm Shabazz Flees Detention
By JANE GROSS
Malcolm Shabazz, who set a fire two years ago that killed his grandmother, the widow of Malcolm X, escaped yesterday from a juvenile detention center in Valhalla, N.Y., further complicating efforts by Westchester County officials to find an institution to treat the troubled 14-year-old. He had been sent to the detention center after fleeing several times from a low-security juvenile institution in Yonkers, and will be charged in Family Court for the latest escape, said Alan D. Scheinkman, th...
July 29, 1999, Thursday .Boy Who Killed Shabazz Has Made Two Escapes
Malcolm Shabazz, who set the fire that killed his grandmother, Malcolm X’s widow, has escaped twice from the Yonkers treatment center where he has been living since February, the police said. Malcolm, now 14, was 12 when he was convicted in 1997 of the juvenile equivalents of manslaughter and arson for setting the blaze in Betty Shabazz’s Yonkers apartment. She died of burns three weeks after the fire.
July 08, 1999, Thursday .Lawyers for Malcolm Shabazz Say He Thrives in Treatment
By JANE GROSS
Twelve-year-old Malcolm Shabazz has grown two inches, learned to play the drums and been elected secretary of his class in his first month of confinement at the Hillcrest Center, a threadbare, turn-of-the-century mansion here that is home to about 60 boys and girls with severe behavioral disorders. The child, who set a fire last June that killed his grandmother, beamed today as he described his accomplishments to Percy E. Sutton and David N. Dinkins, the two semi-retired lawyers who represe...
September 27, 1997, Saturday .Malcolm Shabazz Moved To Center to Serve Term
Malcolm Shabazz, 12, who set the fire that killed his grandmother, Dr. Betty Shabazz, has begun serving his 18-month sentence at a Massachusetts home that specializes in young arsonists. Malcolm was transferred on Sunday from Westchester County’s juvenile detention center in Valhalla to the Lenox, Mass., campus of the Hillcrest Educational Centers, a prosecutor, Barbara Kukowski, said yesterday.
