US Media Cowers instead of Covering Chevron's Prosecution of Human Rights Lawyer Donziger

[Judi Lynn]

by Greg Palast and Zach D. Robertsfor BuzzFlashNovember 11, 2021

Famed indigenous human rights lawyer Steven Donziger had already been under house arrest for over 800 days when he reported to prison on October 27 to begin a six-month sentence. His crime: winning the largest single pollution judgment in history, $9.5 billion, for the Cofan people of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador.

Was the human rights hero jailed in Brazil or China? No, he was sentenced to prison in the USA.



Steven Donziger (L) and his lawyer, Ron Kuby (R), outside the NYC court house before his sentencing hearing on October 1, 2021. Photo: Zach D. Roberts, 2021

AmazonWatch, 60 Nobel Prize winners and the bar associations of a dozen nations have called for an end to this political prosecution. And, after a two-year judicial review, the United Nations Human Rights Commission has ordered the US to release the human rights lawyer.

The Donziger case has received worldwide attention, from Britain’s Guardian to France’s Canal Plus. But in America’s papers and network news, there is silence about this officially recognized political imprisonment — except for a couple of smear pieces on Donziger in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

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https://www.gregpalast.com/us-media-cowers-instead-of-covering-chevrons-prosecution-of-human-rights-lawyer-donziger/