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MEET STEVEN

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Publisher:  Free Donziger
Year Published:  2023  
Resource Type:  Website

The fossil fuel industry and its allies in government continue to target renowned human rights lawyer Steven Donziger for helping Amazon communities in Ecuador win a landmark $10 billion pollution judgment against Chevron. Steven needs our support — as do the Indigenous and farmer communities in Ecuador who are leading the way in trying to hold Chevron accountable and save our planet.

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To put it bluntly, after Chevron lost the pollution case they targeted Steven as a stand-in for the affected communities. The company sued him for $60 billion, the largest personal liability ever faced by anyone in the US; took his law license without a hearing; confiscated his passport; emptied his bank accounts; and ultimately imprisoned him on a contempt of court charge after the nation's first private corporate prosecution.

Steven spent a total of 993 days in detention on case with a maximum sentence of 180 days. The United Nations ruled his detention was arbitrary and illegal. Experts considered him to be a corporate political prisoner.

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