Trial Postponed
Update, June 3, 2009: The court hearing scheduled for today, June 3, 2009, has been canceled by Chief Judge Kimba Wood. The court order can be found on the Attend the Trial page of this website. Please check back for further details on the trial start date.
Update: June 1, 2009: The Wiwa v. Shell trial was originally scheduled to begin on May 27, 2009. On May 26, Chief Judge Kimba Wood ordered the trial postponed; she did not yet set a new trial date but set a hearing date for June 1, 2009. That hearing has now been moved to Wednesday, June 3. Please see the original order, here. We will post updates to www.wiwavshell.org as soon as they become available.
May 29, 2009: The hearing set for Monday has been removed from the court’s calendar.
On November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa, an acclaimed writer and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was hanged along with eight other Ogoni leaders, after a trial before a military tribunal that was condemned around the world as a sham. Ken Saro-Wiwa's last words were: "Lord take my soul but the struggle continues."
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