Category: Andy Hall
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THE EMBASSY COMPUTER – IT SAYS NO! –
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…
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REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS – PLEASE WITHDRAW COMPUTER CRIME ACT LEGISLATION
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…
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BRITISH EMBASSY SHOWDOWN – AMBASSADOR PROMISES A DETAILED REPLY
EMBASSY HELP HALL SAYS WAS: ‘HERE’S A BOOK ON WHAT TO DO IN JAIL!’ British human rights activist Andy Hall has challenged the British Embassy to provide the consular duties required of it – citing the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s own written commitments. Claiming that Embassy help so far has entailed little more than being…
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DID BRITISH EMBASSY STITCH UP ITS OWN CITIZEN? The Natural Fruit Case Continues
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…
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FINLAND STRIKES BACK FOR BRITISH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST IN THAILAND-
LIBEL CASE FAST BECOMING SELF INFLICTED WOUND ON THAI COMPANY (Picture Survivors Geoff Taylor and daughter Helen. His daughter Andrea did not.) Is it possible that wealthy Thai companies connected to politicians are now over-stepping the litigation mark? This below is the latest video from Finnwatch about Andy Hall. Well, yes, it’s early days. But…
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Natural Fruit – Andy Hall Will Not Be Silenced
Publicity about workers conditions at Natural Fruit’s pineapple canning factory down in Prachuap Khiri Kan continues to plague the company which has yet to put up an English speaking spokesman preferring to leave matters with their lawyer. British human rights activists Andy Hall, who supports the rights of Burmese immigrant workers, will not be silenced. He…
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‘AN ATTEMPT TO STIFLE SERIOUS REPORTING OF LABOUR ABUSES IN THAILAND’
-A CHILLING AFFECT!- “Prosecution strikes at the very core of efforts by human rights defenders to end pervasive abuses of workers !in Thailand’s export industry.” (PIC:Andy Hall with Aung San Suu Kyi. Last year he took her on an unofficial trip to see Burmese workers in Mahachai on the Gulf of Thailand outside Bangkok.) In…
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‘THEY CAN JAIL ME. I DO NOT CARE. I WILL WIN’ – SAYS BRITON SOUGHT FOR CRITICISING THAI BOSSES
TINNED PINEAPPLE MAN MAY OPEN CAN OF WORMS! A British human rights activist yesterday pledged that he would go to jail if need be to defend Burmese workers in Thailand whom he says are being abused producing goods for shops in Britain and Europe and the United States. Following the issue of criminal and civil…
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Finnwatch throws down the gauntlet at Natural Foods – Thailand
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,…
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PINEAPPLE EATING FINNS MAY HAVE CAUSED AN ASIAN STORM
-PINA COLADA SALES PLUMMET IN HELSINKI!- Flying Sporran’s Weekend Diary- Actually I had never heard of Finnwatch before but I have always advocated an organisation which could watch Finns. But it now seems this organization, together with the Finns, or some of them up there in the frozen tundra, who have a liking for pineapple…
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THAI ABUSE OF MIGRANTS INVOLVES CORRUPT POLICE, OFFICIALS, EMPLOYERS AND POLITICIANS -CLAIM
-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…
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BRITISH ‘SPY’ ON THE RUN FROM THAI AUTHORITIES
-THAIS SEEK ADVISOR TO BURMESE HEROINE AUNG SAN SUU GYI – HE’S A SPY!- Pineapple canner calls for jail and US$10 million damages. From Andrew Drummond, Bangkok- (pic-Andy Hall with Aung San Suu Gyi in January) A British human rights activist and advisor on migration to Burmese heroine Aung San Suu Kyi was last night…