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Hanoi (AFP) Sept 20, 2023 - Vietnam has detained the director of an independent energy policy think tank, a rights group said Wednesday, the sixth person working on environmental issues taken into custody in the past two years.
The executive director of Vietnam Initiative for Energy Transition (VIET), was arrested on September 15, making her the sixth environmental and climate expert detained by Vietnamese authorities in the past two years.Authorities not only arrested Nhien but also conducted a raid on the think tank's offices, interrogating its staff. The German government had previously expressed