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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Josh Marcus

‘I’m still not free’: Environmental lawyer who fought Chevron in Ecuador seeking Biden pardon

American human rights attorney Steven Donziger, who spent decades battling Chevron as part of a multibillion-dollar oil pollution case in Ecuador, is seeking a pardon from the Biden administration.

Donziger spent 993 days in home detention in Manhattan, which ended two years ago, on a criminal contempt charge after he refused to turn over his computer, phone and legal files to Chevron.

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