20 Ogoni activists freed

Port Harcourt - Nigeria has freed 20 Ogoni minority activists detained since 1994 on charges of murdering four pro-government chiefs, their colleagues said yesterday. They said the youths, who had been facing the same murder charge for which author Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others were executed in 1995, were freed by a court in the south-astern city of Port Harcourt on Monday.