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Latvia: Ban on March 16 Rallies

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 14 March 2009 1:00 GMT

Free Speech Emergency in Latvia writes about the ban on “the right to free assembly near the Freedom Monument [in Riga] on March 16, a date associated with commemorations of the World War II Latvian Legion as well as counter-demonstrations claiming the Legion memorials glorify Nazism.”

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Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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