Rights activist Andy Hall indicted
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The Bangkok South Criminal Court decided today to indict rights activist Andy Hall in a criminal defamation and computer crimes act case filed against him by a pineapple processing company, Natural Fruit Co Ltd.
Natural Fruit has filed altogether four cases against Andy Hall following the publication and dissemination of a Finnwatch report 'Cheap Has a High Price' in early 2013. The report, which Andy Hall contributed research to, was based on information gathered through interviews with the company's workers who complained about labour rights violations at the plant.
The criminal defamation and computer crimes act case, to which today's decision to indict relates to, is the most severe of all the cases filed against Andy Hall, and carries a maximum penalty of seven years imprisonment.
