Andy Hall

Thailand’s Supreme Court will rule this week on decisions to acquit migrant workers activist Andy Hall of defaming the Natural Fruit Company. Andy Hall was acquitted at the Bangkok Criminal Court in Prakanong and at the Appeal Court. It seems that he should be acquitted again, but nothing is written in stone in Thailand, and […]

‘WE ARE SHOCKED’ – SAYS FINNWATCH DIRECTOR. ‘HE IS A SCAPEGOAT’ Natural Fruit boss Wirat Piyapornpaiboon:  “No foreigner should think they have power about Thai sovereignty.” British workers’ rights activist Andy Hall was given a four year suspended jail sentence in Thailand today for speaking out against the ill-treatment of Burmese workers at a pineapple […]

COMMENT Cases of criminal libel and libel under the Computer Crime Act brought against a British researcher who helped expose mistreatment of Burmese migrant workers will be decided at the Criminal Court in Bangkok tomorrow. Andy Hall faces up to seven years in prison as a result of the action by the Natural Fruit Company […]

The executive director of Finnwatch, the consumer group which produced a critical report on the Thai fruit canning company ‘Natural Fruit’ citing its treatment of migrant Burmese labour is to fly in from Helsinki to Thailand to the trial of British team member Andy Hall. In the long running farce in which Natural Fruit has […]

LOSING FACE TO SAVE FACE IN THAILAND Lest we forget; the continuing persecution of Briton Andy Hall, who was part of a team which exposed ill-treatment of Burmese workers employed by the the Natural Fruit Company in Thailand, continues this Thursday. Andy Hall helped write the report ‘Cheap Has a High Price’ for Finnwatch.  But […]

NOW WILL TWO YOUNG BURMESE GO TO THEIR DEATHS IN BRITISH PUBLIC INTEREST? Scotland Yard officers who spent a month in Thailand overseeing the investigation into the murders of Hannah Witheridge were deliberately misled by the Thai Police and passed on their lies to the families of the victims as truths. Among the key deliberate […]

BUT NO PINA COLADAS ALL AROUND As the Natural Fruit Company of Thailand continues drearily and seemingly spitefully to pursue British Rights Activist Andy Hall in ‘David and Goliath’ criminal libel and computer crime cases, the Appeal Court has confirmed his acquittal on his first case. The Thai military junta and Thailand’s equivalent to the […]

THAI WATERTIGHT MURDER CASE HAS BEEN RIPPED OPEN ON KOH TAO – BUT COULD SCOTLAND YARD’S INVOLVEMENT SEAL FATE OF YOUNG BURMESE? And does DNA taken from hoe match Thai cop investigators or killers at large THE HOE So now we now have evidence that DNA taken from the hoe – the principal weapon in […]

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CONDEMNS NON PROSECUTION OF THAI ARMY TORTURERS The Thai military tortured to death a man in the troubled south and the Supreme Administrative Court accepted the facts awarding the man’s family US$28,000 compensation, It took eight years to get compensation but although the Internal Operations Security Command will have to pay out […]

‘CHANCES OF FAIR TRIAL LOOKING GRIM’ The decision today to indict British migrant work Andy Hall in Thailand on criminal libel and computer crimes charges under laws which do not exist in any other country and are designed to protect the status quo of the rich and privileged has been described today as a blow […]