Blogger gets seven years in jail after writing about toxic spill in Vietnam

A court in Vietnam has sentenced a blogger to seven years in jail for reports he wrote about a toxic spill in the country.

On Monday Nguyen Van Hoa was found guilty of spreading “anti-state propaganda” about a chemical spill that occured in Vietnam in 2016.

The spill, which occured in April, has been dubbed the country’s worst environmental disaster. It happened when Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, a Taiwanese-owned steel factory released chemicals which included cyanide, into the sea. 

The discharge killed marine life, causing at least 70 tonnes of dead fish to be washed ashore and destroyed some 200 hectares of coral reef. Hundreds of people were believed to have fallen ill after eating the poisoned fish. Read more…

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