With @realkiobel inside the courtroom at The Hague now: #Kiobel and @Shell's lawyers are getting ready to speak. Follow @MarkDummett & @sabrinatucci for live updates today and tomorrow 9 October amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
@realkiobel @Shell @MarkDummett The court is about to hear, for the first time, accounts from individuals who accuse @Shell of offering them bribes to give fake testimonies that led to the ‘Ogoni Nine’ – who included Esther Kiobel’s husband – being sentenced to death and executed.
@realkiobel @Shell @MarkDummett In 1995, the Nigerian state executed nine men. Officially accused of involvement in murder, the men had been put on trial because they had challenged the devastating impact of oil production by @Shell in Ogoniland, Niger Delta. Dr #Kiobel and Ken Saro Wiwa were among them
@realkiobel @Shell @MarkDummett The executions were the culmination of a brutal campaign by Nigeria’s military to silence the protests of MOSOP, led by author and rights activist Saro-Wiwa. Today, the people of Ogoniland continue to struggle for justice for the environmental damage that oil pollution has caused
@realkiobel @Shell @MarkDummett @realkiobel is the widow of Dr. Kiobel, one of the Ogoni 9. She first filed a case against Shell in New York in 2002, but in 2013 the US Supreme Court ruled that the US did not have jurisdiction. She then filed a writ in the Netherlands in 2017 together with three other women.
@realkiobel @Shell @MarkDummett Esther #Kiobel, Victoria Bera, Blessing Eawo and Charity Levula accuse @Shell of being complicit in the unlawful arrest, detention and execution of their husbands in 1995. The case is a unique opportunity to bring justice to these women bit.ly/2APU0CH
@realkiobel @Shell @MarkDummett @Shell has been accused of instigating a raft of horrifying human rights violations committed by the Nigerian government against the Ogoni people. @amnesty has documented Shell’s role in these violations carried out to crush the MOSOP protests amnesty.org/download/Docum…
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