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.

• Saeima has declined the draft law on granting compensation to the Jewish Community of Latvia to deal with injustices of WW II
• Saeima has forwarded draft amendments to the Criminal Law to its committees
• Saiema has declined a proposal of the FHRUL to transfer the Naturalisation Board under the auspices of the IUMSILS

Yesterday, the Saeima has declined the draft law, which among other stipulated granting of LVL 32,000,000 (EUR 45,531,897) to the Jewish Community of Latvia as a compensation for the lost properties during the WW II in Latvia. The Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia responded that if the Saeima does not adopt the draft law Latvia also becomes partly responsible for the Holocaust and crimes of the totalitarian regimes.

Yesterday, the Saeima has declined the draft law, which among other stipulated granting of LVL 32,000,000 (EUR 45,531,897) to the Jewish Community of Latvia as a compensation for the lost properties during the WW II in Latvia. The Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia responded that if the Saeima does not adopt the draft law Latvia also becomes partly responsible for the Holocaust and crimes of the totalitarian regimes. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Telegraf, Diena, Latvijas Avize, NRA

Vesti Segodnya reports, that the Saeima has supported the draft amendments to the Criminal Law, which foresee criminal liability for offences related to discrimination. An inter-institutional working group which developed the draft amendments agreed that the draft amendments should include not only sanctions for discrimination on ethnic/racial grounds but also for discrimination on other grounds, including sex, age, religious beliefs, political and other affiliation, education, social origin, social and welfare status, profession, health or sexual orientation. However, the draft amendments distinguish criminal liability for offences related to discrimination and criminal liability for instigation of ethnic and racial hatred.

Yesterday, the Saeima has declined the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law proposed by the political party For Human Rights in United Latvia (FHRUL). As reported, the FHRUL has proposed to transfer the Naturalisation Board under the auspices of the Secretariat of the Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration (IUMSILS in its Latvian acronym). Presently the Naturalisation Board is under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice headed by Gaidis Berzins, the member of the right wing party FF/LNIM.

Yesterday, the Saeima has declined the draft amendments to the Citizenship Law proposed by the political party For Human Rights in United Latvia (FHRUL). As reported, the FHRUL has proposed to transfer the Naturalisation Board under the auspices of the Secretariat of the Special Assignments Minister for Social Integration (IUMSILS in its Latvian acronym). Presently the Naturalisation Board is under the auspices of the Ministry of Justice headed by Gaidis Berzins, the member of the right wing party FF/LNIM. Chas