Nine United States legislators have called on the Justice Department to release environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who spent decades battling Chevron Corp over pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest and was sentenced to six months in prison in October on a criminal contempt conviction.In a letter on Monday, the nine Democratic members of the US House of Representatives, which included Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib, called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to take “immediate action”.They noted that Donziger was jailed on “petty contempt of court” charges stemming from his non-compliance in a lawsuit filed by Chevron, suggesting the DOJ is partially complicit in his targeting by the oil giant.
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