US calls on Vietnam to release environmental activist Nguy Thi Khanh
by Reuters in Washington from Environment | The Guardian on (#60HS9)
Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in February
The US government has said it is deeply concerned" by the sentencing of the Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vietnam to release her.
Khanh, Vietnam's first recipient of the prestigious Goldman environmental prize, was reported in February to have been arrested on tax evasion charges. The founder of the Green Innovation and Development Centre was detained in January.
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