Leading and outspoken climate activist released from Vietnam jail

BANGKOK (AFP): Prominent climate activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong has been released from prison in Vietnam, her husband told AFP on Saturday, a year after she was jailed for tax evasion.

Last September Hong was sentenced to three years in prison for dodging $275,000 in taxes related to her environmental campaign group CHANGE.

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