Steven Donziger is a human-rights attorney who has led a lawsuit against Chevron for alleged damages caused in the Ecuadorian Amazon by Texaco, a company it acquired in 2001.
Donziger has been confined for over 12 months due to a lawsuit filed against him by Chevron. The home confinement was imposed by a U.S. judge.
In this opinion piece, Donziger argues that the action taken against him are part of a campaign by Chevron to intimidate critics of its environmental record.
Freedom of contract. We sell them guns that kill them; they sell us drugs that kill us.
