Author: Andrew Drummond
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ANDY HALL VOTES WITH HIS FEET AND LEAVES THAiLAND
SO LONG AND GOOD LUCK 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 of rights of Burmese workers in…
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ANDY HALL WINS AT SUPREME COURT – BUT AT WHAT PRICE!
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 well to the Thai courts. This…
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NOT GUILTY TWICE – BUT SUPREME COURT HAS FINAL SAY ON ANDY HALL THIS WEEK
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 and at the Appeal Court. It seems that he should be acquitted again, but nothing is written in stone in Thailand, and there clearly…
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THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES (loss of). DREW NOYES LINES UP NEXT TARGET – A HOME DEPOT STORE
THAI FRAUDSTER LOSES MEMORY – BUT LAST WEEK IS CLEAR AS A BELL As I anticipated American Drew Walter Noyes is heading for legal action as he is ‘feeling mad at Home Depot 5511, Carolina Beach Road, Wilmington, North Carolina.’ He claims a pole snapped, and knocked him out. Now, he says, he has 6…
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‘SABBITI HORIBILIS’ FOR GENERAL PRAYUTH AS HE MEETS BAD NEWS WITH THREATS
‘REFLECTS BADLY ON THAILAND? IT WILL BE BANNED In a deeply unhappy week for the Thai military government it has retaliated by threatening foreigners to shut up or face arrest. The junta has had a series of bad news breaks. First up was Thailand’s self-appointed Prime Minister General Chan-Ocha, who threatened to ban the film…
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EXTORTIONIST DREW NOYES WHACKED IN HOME DEPOT
SMASHED IN HIS FACE WITH AN IRON BAR Alas – sad news from across the pond in North Carolina where Drew Noyes, currently on the run from a jail sentence and conviction for extortion in Pattaya, Thailand, has been hit by an iron bar in his local Home Depot. It is reported that even though…
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COULD BRIT DRUGS VILLAIN REALLY BE HIDING OUT IN PATTAYA?
RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE One group of people totally unconcerned with Thailand’s military government and its much publicised crackdown on corruption and the sex trade is of course the British criminal fraternity. There appears to be no shortage of young ladies in the latter. And, as for the former, Thai police do not appear to…
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ANOTHER ‘SAD DAY FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION’ -AS BRITISH WORKERS RIGHTS CAMPAIGNER IS SENTENCED IN THAILAND
‘ HE IS A SCAPE GOAT!’ – FINNWATCH Natural Fruit President 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 factory. Andy…
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JUDGE TO GIVE VERDICT IN NON CONTROVERSIAL MIGRANT WORKERS ABUSE CASE
BUT DO NOT EXPECT THE ISSUE TO BE RESOLVED IN THIS ‘THAI SPITE’ CASE 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…
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CRACKDOWN ON CORRUPTION? BUT IT HAS QUADRUPLED ON FULL MOON HOLIDAY ISLAND – CLAIM
Friday, September 16, 2016 OFFICIAL CAUGHT WITH HIS HANDS IN THE TILL – BUT WILL THESE COMPLAINTS DISAPPEAR? On the day Thailand’s military leader said that the country was on the way to becoming a first world country a foreign business owner on the Full Moon Party island made an official claim of corruption against…