Is Shell Gas Guilty of Hanging and Tourture

May 27th, 2009

From allAfrica–

Nigeria: Saro-Wiwa - Shell’s Trial Begins Today
Ejiofor Alike With Agency Report
27 May 2009:

Shell, over its alleged complicity in the death of Mr. Ken Saro-Wiwa, leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), will begin today.

Lawyers from the company will today represent the oil major in a New York court as it faces charges that it colluded in human rights abuses and torture in the Niger Delta which led to the hanging in 1995 of Ogoni campaigner and renowned poet, Saro-Wiwa…

The case entitled Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Shell and Wiwa v Anderson concerns the November 10, 1995 hangings of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement of the Emancipation of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) known as “Ogoni Nine” and the shooting of a woman protesting the bulldozing of her farm by Shell in preparation for a pipeline project.

After several years of litigation, Judge Kimba Wood ruled that the trial would he held this year.

According to a Financial Times of London report, proceedings are due to open at a New York court today in a suit filed by plaintiffs including Ken Saro-Wiwa Junior, the late activistís eldest son, accusing Shell of complicity in human rights violations committed by the former military government

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