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Anti-immigrant racist commercial condemned

By Liz Fekete

3 July 2002

Two African musicians, who have lived in Latvia for four years, are to sue the Freedom party for libel and defamation of character after they were allegedly tricked into appearing in a racist television advert.

The Freedom party, a small anti-immigration group that is campaigning against Latvia's bid to join the EU, used clips of the two musicians in a commercial in which it was argued that EU membership will be followed by an influx of refugees from Africa and Asia. Latvia's president Vaira Vike-Freiberga called the advertisement 'unacceptable'.

Associated Press 3.7.03

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