Malmström backs EU whistleblower over Thai labour rights

EU Trade Commission Cecilie Malmström on Thursday (6 October) strongly backed the British labour rights activist who helped expose labour abuses in Thailand, for which he received a three-year suspended jail sentence.

British lawyer and labour rights activist Andy Hall meets EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström (right) in Strasbourg on 6 October, to discuss his conviction in Thailand. [Andy Hall]

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