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Anti-immigrant racist commercial condemned
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.
3 July 2002 (101 words)
Train refugees finally granted asylum
More than 100 asylum-seekers from the Middle East and Asia, mostly Kurds, who embarked on a remarkable voyage to escape persecution only to be detained in a Latvian prison, have finally been granted asylum in Sweden and other Nordic states after a protracted struggle as to which country was responsible for them.
1 March 1997 (135 words)
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