United Nations Human Rights body deems lawyer’s house arrest illegal.

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United Nations Human Rights body deems lawyer’s house arrest illegal.

10-04-2021, 10:52 AM

The United Nations Human Rights Council deemed Thursday the detention of environmental lawyer and the United States national Steven Donzinger was illegal. In February 2011, a court in Ecuador found Chevron Corporation liable for causing severe environmental and health damage to the Amazon rainforest by deliberately discharging billions of gallons of oil waste onto indigenous ancestral lands […]

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