Sancken, Renata

Sancken, Renata

Renata Sancken

1 December 2005Feature

On 10 November, nine nooses were hung outside the London Shell headquarters, paralleling the hangings of activist-author Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni colleagues on 10 November 1995. The nine were arrested in Nigeria and held without charges, tortured, and eventually sentenced to death for their peaceful efforts to bring Shell's exploitation of the Ogoni people to light.

At his trial, Saro-Wiwa wrote for his closing testimony, “I and my colleagues are not the only ones on…