Information on the above subject could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB. However, on 9 July 1992 the Latvian Supreme Council voted to dismiss 15 deputies because they had campaigned actively against Latvia's independence from May 1990 to August 1991 (Human Rights Watch Dec. 1992, 217; RFE/RL 24 July 1992, 76). According to the 24 July 1992 issue RFE/RL Research Report, "most of the deputies had belonged to the pro-communist and pro-Moscow Ravnopravie faction" (76).

The attached except from Human Rights Watch World Report 1993 states that the Latvian election law, adopted 20 October 1992, "requires candidates for public office to sign a document avowing that they were never agents of the Soviet security apparatus" (Dec. 1992, 218).

For further information on the above topic, please refer to the attached documents. Additional and/or corroborative information on the above topic could not be found among the sources currently available to the DIRB.

Human Rights Watch. December 1992. Human Rights Watch World Report 1993. New York: Human Rights Watch.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). 24 July 1992. RFE/RL Research Report [Munich]. Vol. 1, No. 30. " Weekly Review Latvia: Supreme Council Ousts Deputies."

Human Rights Watch. December 1992. Human Rights Watch World Report 1993. New York: Human Rights Watch.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). 24 July 1992. RFE/RL Research Report [Munich]. Vol. 1, No. 30. "Weekly Review Latvia: Supreme Council Ousts Deputies."