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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta

Lawyer for Ecuadorian tribes fighting oil industry seeks Biden pardon

a man with his head on his hand
Steven Donziger during a press conference on 19 March 2014 in Quito, Ecuador. Photograph: Rodrigo Buendía/AFP/Getty Images

Steven Donziger, the embattled human rights attorney, has urged Joe Biden to offer him a pardon for his role in defending Indigenous tribes in Ecuador against the oil industry, where his efforts ended with him being sued by Chevron and spending time in jail and hundreds of days under house arrest.

In an interview with the Guardian from his Manhattan apartment, Donziger said a pardon would “send a clear signal to corporations that they can never again criminally prosecute and jail good people who hold them accountable for abuses”.

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