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.

• Two years of suspended sentence for incitement of hate

Latvijas Avize and Vesti-Segodnya report that yesterday, Riga Regional Court convicted Valdis Rosans to two years of suspended sentence with two years on probation for incitement of hate and illegal possession of unregistered ammunition. The Court ruled that through his internet comments, Rosans, a former member of the National Power Union (NSS), disseminated aggressive attitudes towards the Jews, Russians, visually different people, expressed support to national-socialist and racist ideology. He justified Holocaust and insulted its victims, called for extermination of people because of their ethnicity and sexuality, discussed problems such as global Judaism, racial purity and eugenics. The police also found unregistered ammunition. Rosans has previously been charged with hooliganism for throwing eggs at participants of gay pride in 2006, although was acquitted by the court. Yesterday, Rosans stood by his views and in his last words in the courtroom he declared that the whole case was fabricated and political, inspired by Soros-financed NGO in order to scare the society. Psychiatrists recognized that Rosans has a personality disorder and is partially capable. Vesti-Segodnya also reminds about the case of neo-Nazi Andris Jordans, who was completely acquitted earlier this year and alleges that Latvian justice system is treating differently ethnic Russian and ethnic Latvian nationalists, being soft on the latter.