{"id":58797,"date":"2023-09-28T14:50:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/vietnam-jails-leading-climate-activist-hoang-thi-minh-hong-for-tax-evasion"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:50:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T05:50:06","slug":"vietnam-jails-leading-climate-activist-hoang-thi-minh-hong-for-tax-evasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58797","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam jails leading climate activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong for tax evasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong\u2019s three-year sentence is the latest in a string of convictions for environmental campaigners in the country<\/p>\n<p>A leading Vietnamese climate activist has been jailed for tax evasion, the latest environmentalist put behind bars by the country\u2019s communist government.<\/p>\n<p>A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Hoang Thi Minh Hong to three years in prison for dodging $275,000 in taxes related to her environmental campaign group Change, her lawyer, Nguyen Van Tu, said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/28\/vietnam-jails-leading-climate-activist-hoang-thi-minh-hong-for-tax-evasion\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong\u2019s three-year sentence is the latest in a string of convictions for environmental campaigners in the countryA leading Vietnamese climate activist has been jailed for tax evasion, the latest environmentalist put behind bars by the country\u2019s communis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[559,41,2331,767,53,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-environmental-activism","category-human-rights","category-vietnam"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58797","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58797\/revisions\/58798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}