Date | Company | Accusation | City / Area / Country | Source | Tags | Media |
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10/11/1995 | Shell (Royal Dutch Shell) | Shell charged with complicity in human rights abuses against the Ogoni people of Nigeria. Abuses include: "summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, inhumane treatment, arbitrary arrest, wrongful death, and assault and battery." Case settled for $15.5 million. | Ogoni, Rivers, Nigeria | Center for Constitutional Rights, The Guardian | Assault and Battery, Deaths, Killings, Summary Executions, Torture |