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Briefing on Esther Kiobel and her executed husband Dr. Barinem Kiobel

On 10 November 1995, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, the husband of Ether Kiobel, was executed along with other members of the so-called ‘Ogoni 9’ – including Ken Saro-Wiwa – all leaders of the Ogoni people. Esther and other ‘Ogoni 9’ widows hold Shell responsible for its part in what has been widely described as ‘Judicial Murder’.

On 1 September 2002 Esther Kiobel and eleven other (surviving relatives of) Nigerian activists from the Ogoni area sued Shell before the American court. read more

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Shell false pledges of transparency and openness

By John Donovan

Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden says that he believes in the fundamental importance of openness by Shell. This echo’s comments made previously by Jorma Ollila when he was Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell Plc. He said in a speech at the 2014 AGM “Shell believes in transparency and your board has high levels of commitment to this.”

Unfortunately Shell senior management deeds do not, in practice, match their lofty words.

On 22 May I wrote to Shell Legal Director Donny Ching asking him to instruct Shell US lawyers Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, to release for use in the Dutch courts over 100,000 items of evidence gathered by Shell internally in relation to its past conduct in Nigeria. Alleged human rights abuses, including alleged complicity in the murder of Ogoni leaders. read more

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