Official figures record seven racist/xenophobic hate crimes including two physical assaults, one desecration of graves, two attacks against places of worship and two cases of violation of public order.
The government began implementation of the Inter-institutional Action Plan for the Promotion of Non-discrimination for 2012-2014, in which the Ministry of the Interior is obligated to prepare and regularly publish statistics on the criminal acts committed on grounds of the victim's nationality, “race”, ethnic origin, religion, language or belonging to another group.
The European Foundation for Human Rights reported one physical assault by a group against Polish schoolchildren.
World Without Nazism reported one case of graffiti on a synagogue and once case of grave desecration.
The Holy See reported four cases of arson; one case of graffiti on a church; and one case of vandalism against a church, involving damage to a sculpture. While bias motivation was not recorded by the Police in those cases, Lithuanian authorities have initiated proceedings against the perpetrators.
ODIHR observes that Lithuania has not made public reliable data and statistics on hate crimes.