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.

• Security Police detained founder of “Helsinki-86” group Linards Grantins for incitement to ethnic hatred 

Last week the Security Police detained one of former founders of human rights defence group “Helsinki-86” Linards Grantins. The detention was applied within the criminal proceedings initiated on 10 April 2012 for activities knowingly aimed at incitement of ethnic hatred and discontent using automated data processing system (i.e. the Internet). Linards Grantins, who permanently resides in Germany, established a website “www.tautastribunals.eu” (“peoples’ tribunal”), where he and his fellows regularly published allegedly anti-Semitic and Russophobic content, insulted the state officials, politicians and other prominent persons, and on numerous occasions announced that the “peoples’ tribunal” sentenced certain persons to “the highest degree of punishment” (i.e. to “death penalty” in vernacular). Latvijas Avize, Vesti Segodnya