Thai reporter gets jail in libel case filed by poultry farm

Thai reporter Suchanee Cloitre was sentenced to two years in prison for criminal libel for a comment she tweeted about a labour abuse grievance at a poultry farm. - ANN

Critics such as Human Rights Watch say these types of libel cases are meant to deter lawsuits filed in the public interest, such as by labour activists and environmentalists. "I am so shocked. I never thought that it would be such a very harsh verdict,” Suchanee, who now works for a Thai television station, told reporters."I was doing my duty as a journalist in reporting what was happened, I didn't intend to harm anyone."

Thammakaset sued the workers for defamation, alleging that their complaint had damaged the interests of the company, which was a supplier of poultry to Thai agribusiness giant Betagro. It later sued two workers and a labor activist for theft for taking their time cards to document their allegations of labor law violations. Thammakaset lost both cases.

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