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Nigeria - Ken Saro-Wiwa Receives Death Sentence

(10 Nov 1995) T/I: 11:23:43 GS 10:49:04 Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his fellow Ogoni minority rights activists were hanged on Friday (10/11), in defiance of international demands for clemency. Saro-Wiwa, 54, was convicted of the murder of four men during a May 1994 political rally, but said he was framed. He was one of dozens of activists jailed by the regime of military leader General Sani Abacha. Observers were astonished that the junta would uphold the sentences just as the Commonweath summit began in Auckland, New Zealand. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa called on the 52-member Commonwealth to expel Nigeria. Saro-Wiwa had campaigned on behalf of the 500,000 Ogoni people who live in Nigeria's oil-rich south and say their land and water are being destroyed by oil industry pollution. Oil accounts for about 80 percent of Nigeria's export income, and critics of the industry are often silenced. Shell International, the oil company against which Saro-Wiwa led his environmental cause, even pleaded for clemency on his behalf. SHOWS: NIGERIA RECENT + FILE (MUTE): 31/10/95: 0.00 CU Saro-Wiwa appealing for clemency at his trial 0.10 MS judge reading sentence, PAN to Saro-Wiwa 0.20 Saro-Wiwa being hugged by woman after trial FILE: (NATSOT): 0.24 WS of rally 0.26 Saro-Wiwa exhorting crowd 0.33 WS of Ogani day demonstration 0.41 Demonstrator with placard reading "Save Ogani Environment" and another saying "Assassins Go Home" 0.45 High shot of demonstrators 0.49 WS of demonstrators 0.53 WS of oil refinery 0.59 Villagers paddling canoe along river 1.04 WS river and oil refinery 1.15 Tilt up from river to gas outlet flame 1.22 ENDS Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...