The International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) has described Thailand as being ‘on trial’ for allowing a company to prosecute a human rights defender who exposed modern day slavery in its canned fruit and fishing industry. The ITF is demanding that charges against Andy Hall, a UK citizen who is due to stand trial in September […]
THAILAND MILITARY’S TRUTH DILEMMA Lawyers Rights Watch of Canada are the latest organisation to back British Human and Migrant Workers’ Rights advocate Andy Hall. They have written to both the British Ambassador Mark Kent and Britain’s Foreign Secretary the Rt Hon William Hague. While the LRWC is critical of the British authorities for not doing […]
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 […]
CHEATING IS SYSTEMATIC AND ALL ENCOMPASSING IN “CORRUPTION FEST” Battling British workers’ rights crusader Andy Hall has gone head on with Thailand with a report which accuses Thai officials, agents, and employers, of systematically shaking down Myanmar (Burmese) workers for cash. A report which he has presented through the Migrant Workers Rights Network accuses Thais […]
BUT AMBASSADOR EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT HE WAS ‘VERBALLED’ DURING AN INTERVIEW Documents obtained by human rights activist Andy Hall under the UK Freedom of Information Act show that British Embassy officials could not warn him that when entering Thailand he could be arrested. Although the Embassy were in possession of the facts and had information […]
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 […]
Hugo Swire, British Minister of State for the Foreign Office, has stated that although Embassy officials had spoken to official of the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Thai Government cannot interfere with the judicial process in Thailand. The question was put by M.P. Kerry McCarthy in relation to the attempted prosecution of human rights […]
BUT THE MAN FROM NATIONAL FRUIT – HE SAY YES! Battling workers’ rights campaigner Andy Hall who is being sued till kingdom come by the Thai conglomerate National Fruit is having trouble again with the local mission. The British Mission, that is in Wireless Road. ‘The Best Consular Service in the World’ The Consular Offices […]
Reporters Without Borders has asked the Ministry of Communications and Internet Technology to change its approach to updating the Computer Crime Act of 2007. The law already authorizes the government to arrest journalists and bloggers for political reasons. If a newly proposed amendment were adopted, the government would have even more latitude to muzzle the […]
Andrew Drummond is a British independent journalist and occasional television documentary maker. He is a former Fleet Street, London, journalist having worked at the Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Observer and The Times.