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US human rights lawyer faces 6 months in jail after standing up to Chevron

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28 Oct 2021

Steven Donziger has spent nearly three decades fighting Chevron on behalf of 30,000 people in the Ecuadorian rainforest. On October 1, he was sentenced to six months in federal prison for criminal contempt for refusing to give Chevron access to confidential client communications. We speak about the case with Paul Paz y MiƱo of Amazon Watch.