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.

• Riga Regional Court sentenced two men to six and eight months imprisonment for racially motivated assault on a dark skinned man under Section 78.2
• Yesterday, the European Parliaments Petitions Committee reviewed 14 applications on citizenship and minority rights in Latvia

Yesterday, the Riga Regional Court has sentenced two men to six and eight months imprisonment for racially motivated assault on a dark skinned man in the centre of Riga in summer 2006. It is a first time when persons charged under Section 78 of the Criminal Law were sentenced to real imprisonment. The leader of the Afro-Latvian Association Christopher Ejugbo in an interview with Chas stated that after the incident the police have promised to place video surveillance cameras and to intensify policing places where skinheads have been seen. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Latvijas Avize, Diena, NRA

Yesterday, the European Parliaments Petitions Committee has reviewed 14 applications on citizenship and minority rights in Latvia, including a petition of Jurijs Petropavlovskis who was refused Latvian citizenship though he had passed naturalisation procedure. Chas, Vesti Segodnya, Diena