{"id":55656,"date":"2023-06-02T14:14:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T05:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/vietnam-outcry-after-leading-climate-activist-arrested-accused-of-tax-evasion"},"modified":"2023-06-02T14:14:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T05:14:10","slug":"vietnam-outcry-after-leading-climate-activist-arrested-accused-of-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55656","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam: outcry after leading climate activist arrested, accused of tax evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say allegations against Hoang Thi Minh Hong are politically motivated, coming amid similar prosecutions against other environmental activists<\/p>\n<p>Police in Vietnam have arrested a prominent environmental activist after accusing her of tax evasion, charges that have been dismissed by critics as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tienphong.vn\/viet-nam-noi-ve-viec-hoang-thi-minh-hong-bi-bat-post1539296.tpo\">Hoang Thi Minh Hong<\/a>, a former CEO of Change, an environment-focused NGO, was detained by police along with her husband, Nam Hoang, and former staff members of Change in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/02\/vietnam-outcry-after-leading-climate-activist-arrested-accused-of-tax-evasion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics say allegations against Hoang Thi Minh Hong are politically motivated, coming amid similar prosecutions against other environmental activistsPolice in Vietnam have arrested a prominent environmental activist after accusing her of tax evasion, c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,65,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55657,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55656\/revisions\/55657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}