Steven Donziger, the lawyer who sued Chevron for oil spills in the Amazon, is sentenced to six months in prison

In New York, environmental and human rights attorney Steven Donziger was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday, after spending more than two years under house arrest prior to trial on misdemeanor charges. Donzinger has been the target of the oil company Chevron since he sued that company in Ecuador, on behalf of 30,000 Amazonian indigenous people, for spilling more than 72,000 million liters of oil on their ancestral lands. This week, human rights experts from the HIM-HER-IT described Donziger’s house arrest as arbitrary and in violation of international law and called for him to be immediately released and compensated

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