Environmental defenders fear backlash as defendant sues expert over testimony

Mongabay
Apr 26, 2018, 12:13 pm370 pts
JAKARTA — Environmental experts and activists are closely watching a lawsuit filed against an academic whose testimony helped convict a governor on corruption charges, in a case many fear could set a worrying precedent. Basuki Wasis, an expert on environmental degradation from the Bogor Institute of…

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