Supreme Court dismisses defamation case against British activist
Supreme Court on Thursday cleared a British labour rights advocate of defamation in relation to a lawsuit filed by a pineapple processing company. The court threw out the charges which related to an interview given by Andy Hall to broadcaster Al-Jazeera in Myanmar in April 2013 concerning a prosecution case brought against him by the Natural Fruit Company.
The judges ruled that they had no jurisdiction over offences committed in Myanmar. Natural Fruit launched four separate criminal and civil cases against Hall, including two defamation claims for damages of Bt400 million (US$11.5 million), after he wrote a report in 2013 alleging that company abused migrant workers.The lawsuit relating to the interview was one of the criminal cases.
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