Latvia - Riga-based daily ransacked by unidentified intruders

Reporters Without Borders condemns a break-in by unidentified intruders at the offices of the Riga-based daily Neatkariga Rita Avize (www.nra.lv) and its publishing house SIA Mediju Nams on the night of 1 January in which windows were broken, the offices of editors and leading reporters were badly damaged, and many files were destroyed or defaced. “They tried to make us think it was an ordinary burglary but that is hard to believe,” a senior staff member told Reporters Without Borders. (...)

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