{"id":319390,"date":"2021-09-21T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/21\/top-thai-union-leader-targeted-with-jail-for-rail-safety-campaign"},"modified":"2021-09-21T05:00:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:00:33","slug":"top-thai-union-leader-targeted-with-jail-for-rail-safety-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/21\/top-thai-union-leader-targeted-with-jail-for-rail-safety-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Thai union leader \u2018targeted\u2019 with jail for rail safety campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Case is \u2018major blow\u2019 in country with weak workers\u2019 rights and puts trade deals in question, says Human Rights Watch<\/p><p>One of Thailand\u2019s most prominent union leaders is facing three years in prison for his role in organising a railway safety campaign, in a case described as the biggest attack on organised labour in the country in decades.<\/p><p>Rights advocates say the case involving Sawit Kaewvarn, president of the State Railway Union of Thailand, will have a chilling effect on unions and threatens to further weaken workers\u2019 rights in the country.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/21\/top-thai-union-leader-targeted-with-jail-for-rail-safety-campaign\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/21\/top-thai-union-leader-targeted-with-jail-for-rail-safety-campaign\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case is \u2018major blow\u2019 in country with weak workers\u2019 rights and puts trade deals in question, says Human Rights WatchOne of Thailand\u2019s most prominent union leaders is facing three years in prison for his role in organising a railway safety campaign, in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1333,6,640,14,1156,1332,2763,1314,1667,1499,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319391,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319390\/revisions\/319391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}