Concern Grows in Indonesia over Environmentalist’s Arrest
Detention the latest in growing antagonism to environmentalists, journalists, critics say
Concern is deepening over the detention in Indonesia of Philip Jacobson, an award-winning editor for the environmental science news outlet Mongabay, who has been under house arrest for more than a month over an alleged visa violation and threatened with as much as five years in jail. He was formally arrested on January 21.
Mongabay, an international nonp…
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