Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Tucked into a row of books on police brutality sat a fat collection of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Wiwa is a famous Nigerian name. Charles Wiwa's uncle, Ken Saro-Wiwa, was a writer, the first person in their village to get a university education. ... Full Article at Chicago Tribune
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There is no way the company will be held liable for anything in courts in Nigeria,” Wiwa said. He now lives in Chicago, having been allowed into the United States as a political refugee. In the most notorious incident of the crackdown, Nigeria’s... Full Article at Northwest Indiana Post-Tribune
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There is no way the company will be held liable for anything in courts in Nigeria," Wiwa said. He now lives in Chicago, having been allowed into the United States as a political refugee. In the most notorious incident of the crackdown, Nigeria's... Full Article at Sify
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There is no way the company will be held liable for anything in courts in Nigeria," Wiwa said. He now lives in Chicago, having been allowed into the United States as a political refugee. In the most notorious incident of the crackdown, Nigeria's... Full Article at Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
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There is no way the company will be held liable for anything in courts in Nigeria," Wiwa said. He now lives in Chicago, having been allowed into the United States as a political refugee. In the most notorious incident of the crackdown, Nigeria's... Full Article at San Antonio Express
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Upcoming Supreme Court Case May Be Key To Holding Spy Tech Companies Responsible For Human Rights Violations
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Recently these same claims, on the same standard, have been applied to companies, ranging from one using slave labor to build a pipeline in Burma, to one who helped in the wrongful hanging of Nigerian human rights hero Ken Saro-Wiwa. The cases are not... Full Article at Electronic Frontier Foundation
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There is no way the company will be held liable for anything in courts in Nigeria," Wiwa said. He now lives in Chicago, having been allowed into the United States as a political refugee. In the most notorious incident of the crackdown, Nigeria's... Full Article at Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Supreme Court will review law that allows foreigners to take multinational companies to court
The Register Citizen
He now lives in Chicago, having been allowed into the United States as a political refugee. Continued... In the most notorious incident of the crackdown, Nigeria's military dictatorship hanged author Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists, sparking... Full Article at The Register Citizen
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Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro-Wiwa (October 10, 1941 – November 10, 1995) was a Nigerian author, television producer, and environmentalist. He was the son of Chief Jim Wiwa. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority whose homelands in the Niger Delta have been targeted for oil extraction since the 1950s. Initially as... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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