September 25, 2020
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Accused of burning logging machinery belonging to Malaysia-based firm Xiang Lin SI Ltd, the “Nende Five” were taken into custody in 2018. In June 2020, three of the five were acquitted based on lack of evidence. However, in July the magistrate decided to uphold charges against the two remaining defendants...Meanwhile, logging continues to spread in the Solomon Islands in areas that are home to local communities and claimed as ancestral land,...
