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A long running controversial court case involving the oil conglomerate, Royal Dutch Shell, has been settled in New York.
Shell, which had been accused of complicity in human-rights abuses in Nigeria, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle several lawsuits over the executions of protesters in Nigeria in the 1990's.
The lawsuits sought unspecified damages from Shell for backing the jailing, torturing and killing of the protesters as well as for polluting the region's air and water.
The original lawsuits were brought under a U.S. law which allows non-citizens to file cases in U.S. courts for human rights abuses occurring overseas.
Though Shell has agreed to paying the multi-million dollar settlement it strongly denied any wrong-doing.
Judith Chomsky is one of the lawyers that represented the families of the victims.
On the line to New York Peter Ndoro asked her what she made of the outcome.
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