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Panel defers ruling on Ogoni hangings

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    Nigeria’s Human Rights Violations Investigation Commission has deferred to an unspecified date a ruling it was to have made on Wednesday on the legality of the 1995 execution of author Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other minority rights campaigners, AFP reported.

    The hanging - ordered by late dictator Sani Abacha in defiance of world opinion after a murder trial generally considered flawed - turned Nigeria into a pariah state until the demise of Abacha in 1998 and the return of democracy a year later.

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