Anna Neistat

Anna Neistat, a senior director of research at Amnesty, was part of the emergencies programmme at Human Rights Watch at the time of the Andijan investigation. All the names of witnesses have been changed.

From The Blog
24 February 2011

Twenty-year-old Nasta Polozhanka was detained by the Belarusian KGB for more than two months. One of the leaders of the youth movement Molodoi Front, she is accused of organising ‘mass disturbances’. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years in prison. The ‘mass disturbances’ in question were a largely peaceful protest against last year’s rigged presidential elections. As soon as polling stations closed on 19 December, the Election Commission announced yet another landslide victory for Aleskandr Lukashenko, ‘Europe’s last dictator’, who has been in power for 16 years.

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