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THAI COURT FINDS ANDY HALL GUILTY
‘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 […]
FINNS TO FLY IN FOR TRIAL OF MIGRANT WORKERS RIGHTS ACTIVIST ANDY HALL
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 […]
