Dear John,
I have always been an avid follower of your good work online through the Shell website.
I am an environmental activist living here in The Netherlands. I am from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria where Shell has a huge presence with a history of environmental devastation of our people’s environment.
I have been campaigning against this for many years and testified at the Dutch Parliament against Shell in a Parliamentary hearing where Shell was summoned to defend their practice in the region.
Less than a month after the hearing, a team of about 30 police came to my house and arrested me on trumped up charges and I was detained for 14 days before being released, but remained a suspect.
When they could not establish a case against me, just last month they came up with a new charge: “conspiracy to commit terror act by blowing oil pipelines belonging to Shell in the Niger Delta.”
Read More: Royal Dutch Shell Group .com