Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
On October 5 Latvian police detained three persons in center of capital Riga spontaneously protesting against the actions of a political party. Also three bystanders were detained as well. Read more here: http://freespeechlatvia.blogspot.com/2011/10/latvian-police-deliberately-detain.html
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Journalist and host of political Latvian TV show Skats no malas (A View from The Sidelines) Kārlis Streips was fired for calling the Latvia's Green and Farmer's Union political party a "whores" during his show. Here is more info on that: http://freespeechlatvia.blogspot.com/2011/09/latvian-talk-show-host-booted-after-16.html
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Friday, March 20th, 2009
Last week Reporters Without Borders issued a report entitled “Enemies of the Internet” in which it examines Internet censorship and other threats to online free expression in 22 countries.
“The 12 ‘Enemies of the Internet’ - Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam ...
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
Recently the Latvian Minister of Justice Gaidis Berzins from Fatherland & Freedom Party proposed drafting a law that would drastically restrict media coverage of criminal cases by forbidding the publication or quoting of case evidence and other materials in case (based on leaked documents and materials made public by the ...
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Yesterday, peaceful meeting organzed by opposition party ended with riots. Riots started when official part of meeting ended and about 1000 protesters went down to Saeima (parliament of Latvia) house nearby in Old Town Riga. With shouts of “Fire the Saeima” the protesters attempted to storm into the parliament building ...
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Monday, August 4th, 2008
On Saturday, August 2, Latvia hold a referendum on amendments to the Constitution to give people the right to dissolve Parliament. To pass, the referendum needed 757,607 “yes” votes or half the voting population. Though referendum failed to win enough support. Only 560,000 Latvians or about 43% of Latvia's 1.5 ...
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