{"id":51658,"date":"2023-01-05T22:53:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T13:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/05\/thai-police-accused-sham-probe-alleged-forced-labour-former-tesco-supplier"},"modified":"2023-01-05T22:53:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T13:53:15","slug":"thai-police-accused-of-sham-inquiry-into-alleged-forced-labour-at-former-tesco-supplier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51658","title":{"rendered":"Thai police accused of \u2018sham\u2019 inquiry into alleged forced labour at former Tesco supplier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Exclusive<\/strong>: Burmese workers say officials took one day to conclude no laws were broken at VK Garment factory<\/p>\n<p>Thai police have been accused of conducting a \u201csham\u201d investigation into potential forced labour at a garment factory formerly used by Tesco after officials took one day to conclude no laws were broken.<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian revealed last month that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-in-thailand-who-made-ff-jeans-for-tesco-trapped-in-effective-forced-labour\">Burmese workers who produced F&amp;F jeans for Tesco<\/a> in Thailand reported being made to work 99-hour weeks for illegally low pay in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/18\/workers-tell-of-sweatshop-conditions-at-thai-factory-used-by-tesco\">terrible conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/05\/thai-police-accused-sham-probe-alleged-forced-labour-former-tesco-supplier\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Burmese workers say officials took one day to conclude no laws were broken at VK Garment factoryThai police have been accused of conducting a \u201csham\u201d investigation into potential forced labour at a garment factory formerly used by Tesco after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3490,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,1318,82,335,2820,61,2509,1010,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-forced-labour","category-myanmar","category-retail-industry","category-rights-issues","category-south-and-central-asia","category-supermarkets","category-tesco","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51669,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51658\/revisions\/51669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}