Three Thai activists, Angkhana Neelapaijit, Puttanee Kangkun, and Thanaporn Saleephol, were recently cleared of criminal defamation charges in a decision that both praised the tenacity of human rights advocates and emphasised how oppressive Thailand’s defamation laws are. Their social media posts that exposed the difficult working conditions at a chicken farm run by the Thammakaset firm led to the allegations. …