Hat-tip: Black Looks
The lawsuits are to be brought before a New York court judge on 26 May 2009. The plaintiffs allege the company was complicity in human rights abuses against the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta. According to Wikipedia:
The particular incidents being raised in these cases are the 1995 judicial hangings of the Ogoni Nine, leaders of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), the torture and detention of Owens Wiwa and Michael Tema Vizor, and the shooting of a woman, Karololo Kogbara, who was peacefully protesting the bulldozing of her crops in preparation for a Shell pipeline by Nigerian troops called in by Shell, and another female protester, Uebari N-nah.*Check out Sokari's blog for further background on the case.
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Wikipedia: Conflict in the Niger Delta
Wikipedia: Wiwa family lawsuits against Shell*
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