{"id":707659,"date":"2022-06-20T03:44:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T03:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/20\/us-calls-on-vietnam-to-release-environmental-activist-nguy-thi-khanh"},"modified":"2022-06-20T03:44:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T03:44:32","slug":"us-calls-on-vietnam-to-release-environmental-activist-nguy-thi-khanh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/20\/us-calls-on-vietnam-to-release-environmental-activist-nguy-thi-khanh\/","title":{"rendered":"US calls on Vietnam to release environmental activist Nguy Thi Khanh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in February<\/p>

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The US government has said it is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by the sentencing of the Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vietnam to release her.<\/p>

Khanh, Vietnam\u2019s first recipient of the prestigious Goldman environmental prize<\/a>, was reported in February to have been arrested on tax evasion charges. The founder of the Green Innovation and Development Centre<\/a> was detained in January.<\/p> Continue reading...<\/a>\n

This post was originally published on Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in FebruaryThe US government has said it is \u201cdeeply concerned\u201d by the sentencing of the Vietnamese environmental advocate and activist Nguy Thi Khanh and called on Vi…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,393,10123,6,640,1156,2296,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707660,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707659\/revisions\/707660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}