Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Dark-skinned man was physically assaulted by two skinheads in Riga

On Saturday, a dark-skinned man, member of the AfroLat Association, was physically assaulted by two young men, skinheads, in Riga. The police arrested two persons shortly after the attack and initiated a criminal case on the grounds of hooliganism. According to

On Saturday, a dark-skinned man, member of the AfroLat Association, was physically assaulted by two young men, skinheads, in Riga. The police arrested two persons shortly after the attack and initiated a criminal case on the grounds of hooliganism. According to Diena and Latvijas Avize, the police have reclassified the charge as incitement to racial hatred according to Section 78 of the Criminal Law. The head of AfroLat Christopher Ejugbo has stated that dark-skinned people have suffered from skinhead groupings already before and the number of attacks has recently increased. Diena, Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf, Latvijas Avize, Rigas Balss