Human Rights Watch official ban for violating immigration and emigration regulations

Lanka-e-News 08.May.2009, 6.15pm

Sri Lankan authorities have taken steps to ban Sri Lanka for a lady official of Human Rights Watch who has entered into the country in a false identity submitting fake information.

Ms. Anna Nistat, a senior researcher of the Human Rights Watch arrived in Sri Lanka under a tourist visa submitting fake information to immigration and emigration officials. She has then visited the camps of the displaced persons in Vauniya and recorded statements from inmates.

Following her Sri Lanka visit, she has passed this information to a US senator who then briefed to UN about Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan authorities later found that she had not obtained the credentials for such a research. Therefore, the Immigration and emigration Department of Sri Lanka has taken steps to ban visa for Anna Nistat of Human Rights Watch since she has found guilty of violating immigration and emigration regulations.