date:Oct 30, 2020
Yesterday, Thai pineapple processing company Natural Fruit Co. Ltd. dropped a $9.6 million civil defamation lawsuit against British labor rights activist Andy Hall. In 2013, Hall alleged in a report that workers were exploited and abused at one of the firms factories. Natural Fruit dropped its lawsuit on the second day of what was to be a three-day trial, said Finnwatch, an NGO that published the report seven years ago.
Hall, who fled Thailand in 2016, on Wednesday welcomed the withdrawal of th