Andy Hall

Not before time, Andy Hall, who has exposed exploitative conditions for migrant workers in Thailand many times, has finally become the victor in his long battle with the fruit canning company Natural Fruit. His case is an outstanding example of what happens when whistle-blowers expose exploitation and even crimes committed by powerful people and companies […]

KPMG CONSULTANT – WHO BOUGHT LUXURY THAI HOME WITH ‘NO ENCUMBRANCES’ – GOT NOTHING! ORDERED IN COURT TO LEAVE EVERYTHING TO FRAUDSTER The continuing story of Thailand’s property scammers and the officials who stand to gain. A former consultant to KPMG, one of the world’s four largest audit groups, has told how he was threatened […]

NEW CHARGES OVER THEFT OF 2 BAHT  CHICKEN FARM TIME CARDS POSE THE QUESTION ‘JUST HOW INSANE CAN THAILAND’S JUSTICE SYSTEM GET?’   While Thailand’s military junta is anxious to show the West, in particular the U.S. State department, that it is cracking down on the human trafficking of workers in Thailand we can happily […]

Every time that I read that migrant workers in Thailand are being prosecuted for stealing their time cards, by a Thai chicken processing company accused of labour abuse I can’t help giggling. (Pause) How is the court going to assess the value of the time cards  -50 satang or the millions the company will have […]

In what would seem an almost unbelievable move, were it not Thailand, the poultry company Thammakaset, which was last month ordered by the Supreme Court to pay 1.7 million baht to migrant Burmese workers whom IT abused…is now trying to get them into jail. At Don Muang court in Bangkok today the company laid criminal […]

EMPLOYEES COMPENSATED AND AWARDED 1.7 MILLION THAI BAHT US$5,2000  BUT THEY CONTINUE WITH CLAIM FOR US$1.2 MILLION In a landmark case Burmese migrant workers labouring on a poultry farm in Lopburi, central Thailand, have been awarded compensation for their abuse at the hands of their employers who were supplying chicken meat for export through the […]

“I AM LAUNCHING THESE CASES WITH A HEAVY HEART” ….just in from Finnwatch Lawyers representing Andy Hall, a British researcher and labour activist specialising in migrant worker rights, will tomorrow on 31st May at 9:00am (GMT+7hrs) file criminal litigation against Thailand’s Office of the Attorney General, nine Thai state prosecution officials and one senior police […]

The current Thai military government claims it is on a drive to end corruption but seems unwilling to stem corruption within its own ranks.  Now they’re being asked or told to leave human rights defenders alone – and the Thai government claims it is improving human rights in the fishing industry and clamping down on […]

STATEMENT ISSUED FROM BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. ‘So long human rights repressors!’ British migrant workers activist Andy Hall tonight issued a statement saying he was leaving Thailand with no planned return date. In a statement issued from Suvarnabhumi International airport, Hall, who was the subject of several libel cases due to his exposure of alleged breaches […]

BUT STILL HE’S GOING THROUGH HELL COMMENT Congratulations are in order today for Andy Hall after the Supreme Court in Thailand finally dismissed a libel case brought over an interview he gave al-jazeera television describing conditions for Burmese migrant labourers at a Natural Fruit plant in the Thai province of Prachuap Khiri Kan. Congratulations as […]