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(1/6) I'm a human rights lawyer who has in house arrest in the U.S. without trial for 18 months after I helped win a $9.5b pollution judgement against Chevron. #FreeSteven
Just before I was arrested, I gave this interview:
Just before I was arrested, I gave this interview:
(2/6) In 2011, courts in Ecuador found Chevron guilty of a terrible environmental crime —deliberately dumping 16 billion gallons of cancer-causing oil waste into Indigenous ancestral lands in the Amazon. Thousands have died.
Chevron refused to pay the judgment.
Chevron refused to pay the judgment.
(3/6) Instead, Chevron threatened the peoples it poisoned with a "lifetime of litigation" unless they gave up. It also demanded Ecuador's government sell out its own citizens by illegally "dismissing" the judgement.
