Nigeria: Further information on prisoner of conscience / legal concern / health concern and new concerns: unfair trial / death penalty

On 30 and 31 October 1995, after what AI believes to have been politically-motivated and unfair trials, the nine people named above were convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. AI considers at least two of them – Ken Saro-Wiwa and Dr Barinem Kiobel – to be prisoners of conscience.

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