Congress General Secretary, Patricia King, has signed a joint letter (60 civil society organizations, 28 unions and worker organisations, 13 companies and 9 members of the European Parliament expressing concern over Thailand's use of criminal defamation to prosecute human rights defender, Andy Hall. Mr Hall was convicted for criminal defamation and violations of the Computer Crime Act. Hall's conviction was in relation to research he undertook by interviewing migrant workers and sending raw interview data to Finnwatch, which then analysed the information and published it in the Finnwatch report Cheap Has a High Price. Finnwatch wrote and published the report online in January 2013 in Helsinki,Finland.
