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.

• European Court of Human Rights obliged Latvia to pay a Cameroonian national EUR 9,000
• Nationalists union wants the articles of the Constitution which determine Latvian language as the only state language to be irrevocable

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued ruling in favour of a Cameroonian national Guy Walter Longa Yonkey in his case against Latvia. The applicant, who arrived to Latvia as asylum seeker, submitted the claim against Latvia complaining on too long detention in the Olaine detention facility for illegal immigrants. The ECtHR found that some periods of detention lasting for totally more than two years in Latvia between December 2008 and January 2010 violated Article 5 § 1 (f) (right to liberty and security; the lawful detention) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The ECtHR obliged Latvia to pay Guy Walter Longa Yonkey EUR 9,000 in respect of non-pecuniary damage. The Cameroonian national was represented in the ECHR by the Latvian Centre for Human Rights lawyer Dzena Andersone.

The full text of the judgment is available at: http://cmiskp.echr.coe.int/tkp197/view.asp?item=1&portal=hbkm&action=html&highlight=57229/09&sessionid=81874914&skin=hudoc-en

Newspapers continue to report about the course of the collection of signatures in support of granting Russian language status of official in Latvia. Following example of the Mayor of Riga Nils Usakovs, also others members of the Concord Centre, including chairmen of local councils, signed for the initiative. The nationalists union All for Latvia!- For Fatherland and Freedom/LNIM, in its turn, elaborated draft amendments to the Constitution of Latvia stipulating that the articles which determine Latvian language as the only state language should be irrevocable. At the same time, one of the initiators of the collection of signatures Vladimirs Lindermans calls citizens to sign for the initiative especially actively on 18 November – the Independence Day of Latvia. For 15 November, it is collected about 40,000 signatures in support of the initiative. Diena, Chas, Latvijas Avize