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.

• Newspapers report on the allegedly racially motivated harassment against leader of the Afro-Latvian Association Christopher Ejugbo
• Latvijas Avize criticises the annual report Human Rights in Latvia in 2004 by the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies

Newspapers report on the allegedly racially motivated harassment against leader of the Afro-Latvian Association Christopher Ejugbo. According to Ejugbo, last Saturday young people, who were dressed in uniforms with swastika on them, shouted at him offensive and insulting phrases. State Police did not initiate a criminal case, because ‘Christopher Ejugbo’ was not physically attacked. According to the representative of the State Police Aigars Berzins, perpetrators were informed about legal consequences of their deed and then released. Christopher Ejugbo has expressed his incomprehension about the police’s decision. While the Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration Ainars Latkovskis condemned violence [against representatives of other races] and stated that there is no place for intolerance, racism, and anti-Semitism in Latvia. The Minister believes that racial violence can be prevented through education of society.

Newspapers report on the allegedly racially motivated harassment against leader of the Afro-Latvian Association Christopher Ejugbo. According to Ejugbo, last Saturday young people, who were dressed in uniforms with swastika on them, shouted at him offensive and insulting phrases. State Police did not initiate a criminal case, because ‘Christopher Ejugbo was not physically attacked. According to the representative of the State Police Aigars Berzins, perpetrators were informed about legal consequences of their deed and then released. Christopher Ejugbo has expressed his incomprehension about the polices decision. While the Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration Ainars Latkovskis condemned violence [against representatives of other races] and stated that there is no place for intolerance, racism, and anti-Semitism in Latvia. The Minister believes that racial violence can be prevented through education of society. Diena, Neatkariga Rita Avize

Latvijas Avize criticises the annual report Human Rights in Latvia in 2004 by the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies. The newspaper reproaches the Centre for implementing double standards towards Russian speakers and Latvian nationalists. The newspaper points that the report reproaches only national-radical newspaper DDD for distribution of xenophobic and anti-Semitic statements, while publications in Russian language newspapers, which according to Latvijas Avize incite to national hatred and turn against the state, are present in almost all issues of Russian language newspapers.