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 Thailand, cited the deterioration in …
VICTORY FOR WHISTLE-BLOWER WHO TOOK ON THAILAND’S LIBEL LAWS FOR PEOPLE OF PRIVILEGE
View PostANOTHER ‘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 Hall, from Spalding, Lincs., said …
JUDGE TO GIVE VERDICT IN NON CONTROVERSIAL MIGRANT WORKERS ABUSE CASE
View PostFINNS FLY IN FOR COURT SHOWDOWN OVER MIGRANT WORKERS AT ‘NATURAL FRUIT’
The executive director of Finnwatch, the consumer group which produced a critical report on the Thai pineapple canning company ‘Natural Fruit’ citing its treatment of migrant Burmese labour, is to fly in from Helsinki to Bangkok to the trial of British team member Andy Hall later this week. In the long running farce in which Natural Fruit has selected Hall …
BRITISH OIL MAN ACQUITTED IN CASE THAT NEVER WAS
View PostDREW NOYES LIBEL CASE SUMMONS WAS ILLEGAL COURT RULES
SUMMONS WAS ILLEGAL COURT RULES – AFTER A YEAR! Another case brought by Drew Walter Noyes, the former publisher of the Pattaya Times, who was convicted of extortion before fleeing on bail to the United States, was today thrown out by the Pattaya Court. The judge ruled that the summons against Alastair ‘Ally‘ Cooper for criminal libel and libel under …
ANDY HALL BANNED FROM LEAVING THAILAND
Andy Hall the British migrant workers activist has been banned from leaving Thailand and his passport has been seized in his continuing battle with the Natural Fruit Company over its treatment of its Burmese labour. The following is the statement issued today bv Finnwatch which complains of judicial harassment. Hall was one of the researchers on Finnwatch’s report on Natural …
FORMER GAY MAG OWNER PREPARES TO SUE OVER THE SHAME OF BEING LABELLED GAY
THE SECRET NOYES ‘FRIEND’ TOOK WITH HIM AS HE WENT TO MEET HIS MAKER. American Drew Noyes is busy keeping us all informed on Facebook about his activities in the US. The property fraudster and fake lawyer is also however keeping one eye open on Thailand and this week recorded the death of Bob Sutterfield, known as Hawaii Bob who …
BRITISH JOURNALIST WINS TWO MORE LIBEL CASES
TWO MORE CASES WIPED AS AMERICAN ‘PUBLISHER’ USES WIFE AND GIRL ‘FRIEND’ TO FIGHT HIS BATTLES British correspondent Andrew Drummond won two more libel cases in the Thai resort city of Pattaya today in ongoing court battles against an American businessman and his ‘wife’ who were last week sentenced to two years in jail for extortion. The Appeal Court dismissed …