Integration monitor
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.
maijs 31, 2005
- District Prosecutors Office of Riga Court brings charges against twomembers of the national radical organisation Latvian National Front
The District Prosecutors Office of Riga Court has brought charges against two journalists Liga Muzikante and Ilze Liepa, members of the national radical organisation Latvian National Front, for incitement of national hatred. In the article, published by the national radical newspaper DDD, the columnists called to deport several MPs of the so-called Russian parties Boris Cilevics, Jakovs Pliners and Tatjana Zdanoka - and used offensive language. The advocate of the journalists Ilze Krastina evaluates the initiated case as an attempt to restrict the freedom of speech. Diena, Latvijas Avize, Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf