{"id":49285,"date":"2023-09-28T14:39:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T13:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=49285"},"modified":"2023-10-02T15:58:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T14:58:34","slug":"vietnamese-climate-activist-jailed-in-unjust-government-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/28\/vietnamese-climate-activist-jailed-in-unjust-government-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese climate activist jailed in &#8216;unjust&#8217; government crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Vietnamese climate activist has been jailed for tax fraud as the country\u2019s authoritarian government cracks down on environmentalists while developing a multi-billion dollar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2022\/12\/14\/rich-nations-mobilise-15-5bn-for-vietnams-coal-to-clean-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clean energy transition plan<\/a> with rich nations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced Hoang Thi Minh Hong on Thursday to three years in prison for dodging $275,000 in taxes related to her climate campaign group CHANGE, her lawyer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/vietnam-jails-environmental-activist-3-years-tax-fraud-media-2023-09-28\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. In addition to the jail term, she was fined 100 million Vietnamese dong ($4,100).<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old is at least the fifth climate and environmental campaigner to be jailed on tax evasion charges in the last two years in Vietnam. The trial only lasted half a day after <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hong pled guilty to charges of dodging tax payments during the 2012-2022 period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This conviction is a total fraud, nobody should be fooled by it,&#8221; Ben Swanton, co-director of The 88 Project charity told Reuters. &#8220;This is yet another example of the law being weaponised to persecute climate activists who are fighting to save the planet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>String of arrests<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hong&#8217;s imprisonment comes two weeks after the arrest of Ngo Thi To Nhien, director of the Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition, an independent energy policy think-tank.<\/p>\n<p>Nhien <a href=\"https:\/\/vn.linkedin.com\/in\/nhien-ngo-8b715a2a?challengeId=AQFBCLyMOBj-5QAAAYrbq_lihM62UphAp8f0oDCQcs49AjA2aqD3lYRidlBio01fmVpY_ArZyNzSHgjAIij-Eq1UXQRxHxf7lQ&amp;submissionId=392a18b8-6c0e-8917-ebd9-a89b3ea5f179&amp;challengeSource=AgG98pB_A_IqwAAAAYrbrDnTYLFLZG8sjj7kKriog3WsIZToLZSDBZOLrsUl5Sw&amp;challegeType=AgF0ku5poyuxKwAAAYrbrDnXx2HTdTTZsI3EdP9-FQqZN3RTVba75hU&amp;memberId=AgHJy99lsGOiIQAAAYrbrDnbUhEGnetW8vxQeWmUT5KpJdI&amp;recognizeDevice=AgG-5iK-ZGuEOgAAAYrbrDne_yDFa3FDKOh0JJV-prZpx1hzimtk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked<\/a> for the EU, the UN, and the World Bank and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/days-after-bidens-visit-vietnam-detains-energy-expert-2023-09-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> providing technical advice for the development of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) \u2013 a $15.5 billion clean energy financing deal made between Vietnam and G7 nations plus the EU, Norway and Denmark.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/vietnams-energy-transition-deal-is-a-black-box-partner-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vietnam\u2019s energy transition<\/strong> deal is a \u2018black box\u2019, partner warns<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The continued crackdown on climate experts and activists poses serious questions to the group of rich nations and investors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/03\/13\/vietnams-energy-transition-deal-is-a-black-box-partner-warns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">partnering<\/a> with the Vietnamese government on a coal-to-clean energy transition.<\/p>\n<p>The US government is &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; by Hong&#8217;s sentencing, a State Department spokesperson said. &#8220;We urge Vietnam to ensure its actions are consistent with the human rights provisions of Vietnam\u2019s constitution and its international commitments, including to consult with non-government stakeholders as part of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (Jetp)&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Just&#8217; transition?<\/h3>\n<p>Announced in December 2022, the agreement stated the need for the media and NGOs to be included in the process \u201cso as to ensure a broad social consensus\u201d and ensure the transition to be &#8220;just and equitable&#8221;. Campaign group Global Witness has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalwitness.org\/en\/blog\/vietnam-lands-just-energy-transition-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticised<\/a> the language as \u201cweak\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2023\/09\/22\/at-un-climate-summit-big-polluters-absence-speaks-volumes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>At UN climate summit<\/strong> big polluters\u2019 absence speaks volumes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The treatment of civil society and energy experts had been a sticking point in negotiations. A spokesperson for the German government, which is also funding the JETP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2022\/11\/07\/as-cop27-kicks-off-where-are-the-coal-to-clean-deals-at\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Climate Home in November 2022 it had raised human rights concerns with the Vietnamese government. A separate source with knowledge of those discussions said the Germans \u201creceived significant pushback\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the spokesperson also hoped that the deal could help activists. \u201cWith the agreement on the JETP, we also hope to be able to send a positive signal to climate activists,\u201d the spokesperson said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The German government &#8220;will continue to demand&#8221; the active participation of civil society in the energy transition process, a spokesperson told Climate Home News after Hong&#8217;s imprisonment. &#8220;The German Government regularly takes its opportunities to raise and present its concerns to partners [of the Jetp] and the Vietnamese government&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns over deal<\/h3>\n<p>Vietnam is a one-party state run by the Communist party without democratic elections. It ranks low on human rights indexes.<\/p>\n<p>When Hoang Thi Minh Hong was first detained in June, the German government <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/germany-vietnam-climate-activist-coal-6f588e675cb736b89a3652c3e4229b55\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> it was concerned by the arrest and viewed it &#8220;critically&#8221; in regards to the implementation of the Jetp.<\/p>\n<p>Norly Mercado is the Asia Regional Director of 350.org, a partner organization of CHANGE. She said the &#8220;unjust imprisonment of fearless changemakers like Hong not only imperils initiatives within Vietnam such as its JETP deal, but also undermines the country&#8217;s vital role in shaping a fair and equitable response to the urgent climate crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Climate Home News has reached out to the UK government and the European Commission for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>The article was updated on 29\/9 to include comments from the German and US governments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five environmentalists have been jailed in the last two years, while the government works on a clean energy partnership with rich nations","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":49286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1847,4228,598],"tags":[4978,764],"coauthors":[4974],"class_list":["post-49285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-climate-justice","category-fossil-fuels","tag-jetp","tag-vietnam","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vietnamese climate activist jailed in &#039;unjust&#039; 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