Concern Grows in Indonesia over Environmentalist’s Arrest
Detention the latest in growing antagonism to environmentalists, journalists, critics say
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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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