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.

• Neatkariga Rita Avize reports on case of seven Somalian immigrants
• State Security Police cancel security measure and status of a suspect for two national radicals allegedly accused of incitement to ethnic hatred
• National radicals discuss a possibility to form a party

The State Boarder Guard will invite a translator from Estonia who speaks the Amharic language to question seven refugees from Somalia who arrived in Latvia at the beginning of August. The State Boarder Guard has made an assumption that these persons are not from Somalia but Ethiopia. They argue that Amharic, the language spoken by the seven immigrants, is not wide spoken in Somalia, while it is the state language of Ethiopia. The director of the Department on Refugee Affairs of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) Baiba Bieza states that if the speculations of the Border Guard are true, the chances of these persons to receive asylum in Latvia may diminish.

The State Boarder Guard will invite a translator from Estonia who speaks the Amharic language to question seven refugees from Somalia who arrived in Latvia at the beginning of August. The State Boarder Guard has made an assumption that these persons are not from Somalia but Ethiopia. They argue that Amharic, the language spoken by the seven immigrants, is not wide spoken in Somalia, while it is the state language of Ethiopia. The director of the Department on Refugee Affairs of the Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs (OCMA) Baiba Bieza states that if the speculations of the Border Guard are true, the chances of these persons to receive asylum in Latvia may diminish. Neatkariga Rita Avize speculates that it may take a year to make a decision in this case. Neatkariga Rita Avize

Yesterday the State Security Police cancelled the security measure and the status of a suspected for the head of the national-radical organisation Latvian National Front Aivars Garda and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper

Yesterday the State Security Police cancelled the security measure and the status of a suspected for the head of the national-radical organisation Latvian National Front Aivars Garda and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper DDD Liga Muzikante. Security measures and the status of a suspect were abolished because the Security Police did not bring charges against these persons in the term provided by legislation. as reported, at the end of July the State Security Police initiated a criminal case against Garda and Muzikante for incitement to ethnic hatred in the articles of the DDD. Latvijas Avize, Chas

Latvijas Avize reports on a meeting of the national-radical organisation Visu Latvijai! Possibilities to form a new national political party were discussed during the meeting.