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FIRST BARREL DISCHARGED ON PLAINTIFF’S FOOT (Flying Sporran Comment) British Migrant Workers Right’s Campaigner Andy Hall was today acquitted of libel by a Thai court – delivering a blow to Thailand’s foot-shooting propensity for allowing victims of bad news to shoot the messengers. Twitter Pic – Jonathan Head And while the messengers have been in […]

THAI PINEAPPLE INDUSTRY URGED TO TELL NATURAL FRUIT TO ‘BACK OFF’ Some 98 international organisations have warned Thailand’s Pineapple Industry Association that if they do not disassociate themselves from Natural Fruit which is suing British human rights activists Andy Hall for libel, that they may too face an international boycott. The organisations which include labour […]

The Thai Frozen Foods Association and the Thai Tuna Industry Association have agreed to back British activist Andy Hall by guaranteeing his bail if the Attorney General proceeds with charges against him. Hall will be escorted from Bangna Police station tomorrow to the Department of the Attorney General. The following is a statement issued by Finnwatch […]

British Human Rights Activist Andy Hall who helped prepare a report on working conditions for immigrant labour at a Thai pineapple and fruit juice business in Prachuap Khiri Kan today surrendered to Thai police in Bang Na, Bangkok. The occasion was more harmonious than a previous incident in which it is alleged that police tried […]

 NO ONE IS TREATED WITH KID GLOVES AT THAI RUBBER PRODUCTS FACTORY! – claim. BUT COMPANY SAYS NOT TRUE AND HAS INITIATED A ‘BEST PLACE TO WORK’ CAMPAIGN Migrant workers in a factory in Thailand producing Marigold rubber gloves have said they are forced to work 13 hour days without overtime or proper breaks, are […]

SO NOW WHERE WILL WE PUT OUR PETIT FOURS? Just when the heat seemed to be coming off Natural Fruit in Prachuap Khiri Kan who are suing British human and migrant rights advocate Andy Hall for a ridiculous sum of money and trying to jail him for promoting a Finnwatch Report on working conditions of […]

ANDY HALL: ‘I FEEL BETRAYED. I HAVE BEEN TOLD I HAVE SAME RIGHTS AS A PAEDOPHILE’ Plus the perils of Embassy requests Human Rights Activist Andy Hall said today that we would rather go to jail in Thailand than give in to the pressure of rich Thai companies with cash to throw around. After appearing at […]

POOR WORKING CONDITIONS, UNLAWFULLY LOW WAGES, CONFISCATION OF OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS,  USE OF CHILD LABOUR,  EXCESSIVE OVERTIME – CLAIMS* The following statement is issued by Finnwatch, a Finnish non-profit organisation (www.finnwatch.org), with regard to Briton Mr Andy Hall’s court hearing brought by Natural Fruit Company in Thailand at Bangkok South Criminal Court today, April Fool’s Day, […]

-HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER STANDS BY HIS ATTACK ON THAI TREATMENT OF BURMESE LABOUR- THAILAND IS PRESENTING FALSE IMAGE TO GLOBAL COMMUNITY – SAYS BRITISH ‘SPY’- Hall at the FCCT Andy Hall, the British Human Rights defender, who is being sued in Thailand for criminal and civil libel for criticising a company which he claimed was […]