Incident with state flag of Belarus in Riga - criminal case opened

28 мая 2021
Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus initiated criminal proceedings against the head of Riga Martins Stukis and Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics for committing deliberate acts aimed at inciting ethnic hatred on the basis of national identity. That was the department's response to the incident with the national flag in Riga, when the mayor of the Latvian city removed the Belarusian flag and replaced it with the white-red-white one. The criminal case was sent to the Investigation Committee of Belarus to organize a preliminary investigation.