Bloodberries

They said it could not be proven. The courts disagreed.

Finland''s Supreme Court: 26 counts of human trafficking. Sweden''s Court of Appeal for Upper Norrland: aggravated human exploitation, established. Lapland District Court, September 2025: 62 counts of aggravated human trafficking.

These are not allegations. They are verdicts, written into the law of the two countries routinely ranked the happiest on earth.

Bloodberries

is a comprehensive investigative work of over 600 pages, drawing on sixteen years of field documentation, court records, worker testimony, and financial data spanning two decades of exploitation in the Nordic forest-berry industry.

Since 2005, Thai workers have harvested 80 to 90 per cent of a wild-berry crop worth €500 million a year — from forests that, by law, belong to everyone. Since 2022, human trafficking complaints involving 800 people have been filed with Finnish and Swedish police, implicating more than 40 companies across Thailand, Finland, and Sweden.

This is not a story about bad actors at the margins. It is a story about how legal systems, government agencies, and listed corporations collaborate — through policy, silence, and profit — to make exploitation possible.

The campaign brought cases to court in both Finland and Sweden. The verdicts confirmed what the workers always knew.

50% of all profits go directly to the Migrant Workers Union of Thailand (MWUT).

Buying this book is not a donation. It is evidence that the story has reached you.

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Junya Yimprasert (จรรยา ยิ้มประเสริฐ) is a relentless rights advocate who does not accept "it can''t be won." Her motto — "One day longer" — captures her approach: you have to outlast it by more than a single day. She works through "action-oriented research" to campaign for labour rights. Junya is a co-founder of the Thai Labour Campaign (2000–2010), chair of Act4Dem ry in Finland (2018–present), and International Coordinator of the Migrant Workers Union of Thailand (MWUT) (2024–present).

In 2014, Thailand''s military junta revoked her passport for demanding democracy, accountability, and the rights of the people. The junta''s verdict: a threat to national security. She has lived and worked in exile in Finland ever since.

For sixteen years, documenting the exploitation of Thai berry pickers in Finland and Sweden has been at the heart of this work — standing openly alongside workers in their struggle for justice and reparation. Bloodberries is the sum of all that evidence, gathered across those sixteen years.