Sri Lanka: Rights official blacklisted for using forged docs to visit
May 08, 2009
A top Human Rights Watch official has been 'black listed' in Sri Lanka after she allegedly used forged documents to visit the country in February this year.
Anna Neistat, the Senior Emergencies Researcher at Human Rights Watch, had allegedly infiltrated the camps of internally displaced people (IDP) in Vavuniya in February, and interviewed the refugees who had fled the fighting in the north, without obtaining the necessary clearance to carry out such research in the country.
"She has violated Sri Lanka's immigration and emigration laws, so we have decided not allow her to enter Sri Lanka," Immigration and Emigration controller P.B. Abeykoon told Daily Mirror yesterday.
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)
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