Judge Rejects Last Ditch Attempt by Shell to Stop Human Rights Trial
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 24th, 2009 4:35 am by HL
Judge Rejects Last Ditch Attempt by Shell to Stop Human Rights Trial
New York, April 23, 2009— This afternoon, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Royal Dutch Shell’s motion to dismiss a human rights case charging the company and the head of its Nigerian operation, Brian Anderson, with complicity in the torture and killing of peaceful Nigerian protesters more than 10 years ago.