HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN THAILAND’S FISHING INDUSTRY – ‘COVER UP – THE SEQUEL’

In Human Rights Watch by Andrew Drummond

Thailand’s effort to put an end to slave labour in the fishing industry is little more then a ‘theatrical exercise for international consumption’, states a report out today. While the Thai government scrambled to create a new ordinance for the fishing industry after severe criticism both of fishing methods and trafficked slave labour by the European Union, problems remain rampant. …

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Human Rights Lawyer To Face Thai Police Charges

In Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Watch by Andrew Drummond

ANOTHER TEST FOR THAILAND’S JUSTICE SYSTEM Human Rights Lawyer Sirikan Charoensiri will tomorrow (Tuesday) report to police who say they are now bringing charges against her for her part in representing students of the New Democracy Movement. The 14 students were arrested last June making a peaceful protest to mark the military junta’s one year in power. This appears to …

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HACKERS SUPPORT WITHERIDGE FAMILY – THAI COURT SYSTEM ATTACKED

In Hannah Witheridge, Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Watch, immigration, Investigations, Koh Tao Murders, murder, murder Koh Tao, Zaw Lin by Andrew Drummond

HACKERS SUPPORT WITHERIDGE FAMILY – COURTS OF JUSTICE WEBSITES DOWN ‘SORRY WEBSITE IS BEING UPDATES The international hackers group ‘Anonymous’ launched a second attack on the Thai government early today Thai time taking down some 297 sites run by the country’s Courts of justice. Protesting against the guilty verdicts on two young Burmese for the murder of Britons Hannah Witheridge …

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THE KOH TAO MURDERS – IF THE VERDICT WAS WRONG TIME WILL NOT TELL

In Andy Hall, David Hannah. murder Koh Tao, Hannah Witheridge, Hannah Witheridge and David Miller, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Watch, murder Koh Tao, murders, Uncategorised, Zaw Lin by Andrew Drummond

By the six o’clock BBC evening news in London yesterday the mews that Wai Phyo and Zaw Lin had been found guilty and sentenced to death for the Koh Tao murders was well down the agenda, coming after a car crash with one fatality, floods in Cumbria and a bus crash with no fatalities. Any doubt about the prosecution of …

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MANGO MIGRANTS AND TERRORIST ROUTE INTO THAILAND?

In Andy Hall, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Watch by Andrew Drummond

Finnwatch – the consumer rights organization which brewed up a storm over the mistreatment of Burmese migrant labour at Natural Fruit’s pineapple processing plant in Prachuap Khiri Kan is at it again – this time attacking working conditions of Burmese in factories supplying to one of Finland’s cut price supermarket chains. In a report rather weakly titled: ‘On the Borderline …

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Thailand's Human Trafficking Revealed

In General Prayuth Chan-ocha, Human Rights Abuses, Human Rights Watch, Investigations, Rohingya by Andrew Drummond

CREDIBILITY OF THAILAND’S MILITARY GOVERNMENT – DESTROYED AT A SINGLE STROKE   A Thai General has revealed the sham of Thailand’s so called investigation into human trafficking after he fled to Australia to seek political asylum. Major General Paween Pongsirin the man appointed to conduct an investigation into the trafficking of Rohingyas from Burma after an international outcry has revealed …

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WAR CRIMES IN ASIA – CHEA SIM DIES AMID CONTROVERSY

In Human Rights Watch, Uncategorised by Andrew Drummond

Chea Sim Human Rights Watch says that the death this week of Chea Sim former President of the Cambodian People’s Party, and like Cambodian strongman Hun Sen, a former battalion commander in the Khmer Rouge, should spur people on to make renewed efforts to bring the remaining Khmer Rouge leaders to justice. Hun Sen satirised on a Cambodianwebiste HRW says …