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SHELL Accused - Landmark Trial: Execution Nigerian Environmental-Rights Activist Ken Saro-Wiwa
World  (tags: Nigeria, Niger Delta, oil giant, Royal Dutch Shell, environmental destruction, human rights violations, landmark, trial, Ken Saro-Wiwa, 9 Ogoni activists, 1995, execution, MovementForSurvival of the OgoniPeople, US federal court, ShellGuilty campaign )

Alba
- 183 days ago - democracynow.org
Oil giant's alleged complicity in NigerDelta HumanRights abuses judged NY fed court from 5/27. 14yrs after acclaimed Nigerian writer/environmental activist Saro-Wiwa's widely-condemned hanging, court to hear Shell was complicit in his torture & execution
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Nigeria: Patrick Okoroafor :Half a Life in Prison [Video. Petition]
World  (tags: 'HUMANRIGHTS!', Nigeria, freedoms, children )

Janet
- 189 days ago - amnesty.org.uk
Patrick Obinna Okoroafor was 14 when he was arrested in 1995 and was sentenced to death when he was just 16.In 2001 a Nigerian High Court judgement declared his death sentence to be illegal,but he is still detained indefinitely
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Allegations of Corporate Crimes Against Humanity Going to Trial
World  (tags: world, business, Shell, oil, money, environment, crimes, humanity, nigeria, human rights, abuses, corporate, corruption, ethics, gas, flaring, pollution, humans, habitat, nature, ecosystems, health, illness, risks, death )

Tom
- 204 days ago - law.com
Possibly for the first time, a corporation goes on trial for crimes against humanity. Southern District of New York Judge Kimba Wood rejected all but one motion to dismiss by Shell Petroleum, N.V. and other defendants in Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum.
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Centre for Constitutional Rights' Bowoto V. Chevron : Murder & Torture of Nigerians Protesting Oil Company
World  (tags: Nigeria, Chevron, environmental impact studies, ugly record, Niger Delta, unarmed residents, environmental protest, villagers, murdered, shot, tortured, soldiers, police, paid by Chevron, Human Rights, litigation, Bowoto v. Chevron )

Alba
- 534 days ago - ccrjustice.org
CCR/EarthRightsInt case seeks justice for villagers injured & killed at Chevron's behest. Chevron paid, transported, supervised Nigerian soldiers & police in murder, shooting & subsequent torture of unarmed villagers engaging in environmental protest
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Nigerian Govt Charges Niger Delta Rebel WithTreason While Keeping Him Incommunicado
World  (tags: Nigeria, Niger Delta, oil rich region, multinationals, grinding poverty of inhabitants, disenfranchised ethnic minority, Henry Okah, treason, Movement for the Emancipation of the Nig, anarchy threatened )

Alba
- 628 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Henry Okah's lawyers 'think' he's still alive, but have no proof as govt has refused to allow access to him or to produce him in court. The defence was handed a copy of 14-count charge, inc treason, 3 months ago. Movement he belongs to -MEND- threatens...
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God's Country
World  (tags: Nigeria )


- 640 days ago - theatlantic.com
Using militias and marketing strategies, Christianity and Islam are competing for believers by promising Nigerians prosperity in this world as well as salvation in the next. A report from the front lines
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Chevron to Stand Trial In California on Pattern of Human Rights Abuses in Nigeria
World  (tags: Nigeria, Niger Delta, Chevron, human rights abuses, violence, land loss, lawsuits, final ruling, EarthRights International )

Alba
- 652 days ago - earthrights.org
Over past few years, Chevron has filed > dozen motions seeking to dismiss all or part of these lawsuits. With these orders, its efforts to avoid accountability for its practices have definitely failed, Marco Simons, Legal Director of EarthRights Internat
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