Award-winning founder of green development centre was arrested on tax evasion charges in February
Khanh was the latest activist to be detained by the authorities on tax-related charges.
Dang Dinh Bach, who heads the Law and Policy of Sustainable Development Research Centre, was sentenced in January to five years in prison for tax evasion. The journalist Mai Phan Loi, leader of the Centre for Media in Educating Community, received a four-year prison term for tax fraud. Both were board members of the VNGO-EVFTA network, a group of seven community organisations involved in
monitoring how the implementation of the EU-Vietnam free trade agreement, which came into force in August 2020, impacts workers’ rights, land rights and environmental strategies. The US state department said: “The United States calls on the government of Vietnam to release Khanh, who has been recognised internationally for her work to advance climate change and sustainable energy issues in Vietnam, as well as other detained environmental activists working for the benefit of Vietnam and its people.”
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