Year
Report data for country
Cases Perpetrators were Sentenced
2
Cases Prosecuted
1
Cases Recorded by Police
12
Explanation to the total figures recorded
Police figures include crimes of incitement to hatred.
Bias motivations and crime types
Mandated bias motivation
Crime types figures
Cases Recorded by Police
12
NPC
Bias motivation
Description Type
Reports
Organization Report
Official figures record 12 hate crimes based on bias against ethnicity and/or national origin.
IGO
Organization Name
Description Type
Developments
Organization Report
The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) recommended that Latvia strengthen training on hate crimes for police, judges and prosecutors. In its adopted reports for 2011, ECRI noted cases of violence against Roma and of damage to property and a monument in Latvia.
Organization Name
Bias Motivation
Description Type
Developments
Source
Universal Periodic Review
Organization Report
The UN Human Rights Council, in its Universal Periodic Review, encouraged Latvia to intensify its efforts to combat hate crime, noting improved criminal law provisions and training. It also recommended that Latvia consider legislative measures to recognize violence against people on the basis of their sexual orientation or gender identity.