AI has learned with dismay that Ken Saro-Wiwa and the eight other Ogoni supporters of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) named above were executed on 10 November 1995.

Nigeria is facing one of the most serious human rights crises which it has experienced in the past 34 years. The military government of General Sani Abacha has silenced the opposition, not only in the press and in the streets, but also in the courts. People have been detained on account of their...

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Ken Saro-Wiwa has been held incommunicado since his arrest on 22 May 1994. While held in Bori Military Camp, Port Harcourt, he is said to have been held in leg irons which resulted in swelling of one of his legs. He also suffers from a heart complaint for which he is not receiving medical...

Ken Saro-Wiwa was arrested in the early hours of 22 May 1994 at his house in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to officials he is being held in connection with the murder of four leading members of the Ogoni ethnic group. He has not so far been charged with any offence or given access to...

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N G Dube and Kobari Nwile were released on bail on 25 July 1993. Together with Ken Saro-Wiwa, who was released on bail on 22 July after receiving finally receiving medical treatment for a heart condition, the three are all prominent members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People...

The above named men, members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) were charged on 13 July 1993 on six counts relating to unlawful assembly, seditious intention and seditious publication in connection with their activities on behalf of the Ogoni community. They are prisoners...

There is concern that members of Nigeria’s security forces opened fire, in two incidents, on apparently peaceful demonstrators in the Ogoni area, 50 kilometres southeast of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, on 30 April and 4 May 1993. In the first incident at Biara, Karalolo Korgbara, a mother...