Providing of legal aid to representatives of minorities claiming that they were
discriminated by law enforcement and judicial bodies, penitentiary institutions
and places of detention with the aim to ensure the equal access to justice for
everyone.
4. Facilitate and support constant dialog with the civil society institutions providing
legal aid to representatives of national, ethnical, linguistic or religious minorities and
monitoring the situation in the criminal justice and penitentiary systems without a
threat to be persecuted by the state law enforcement authorities.
5. Organize a constant training for all actors of the national criminal justice and
penitentiary institutions based on the International Law and best international and
regional practices, including those of other states.
6. Implement the EU Framework Decision 2008/913 and reconcile Art. 151 of
Criminal Code of the Republic of Estonia (Incitement of hatred) with the said
document.
7. Publicly condemn the speeches and statements of political leaders, ministers, and
state officers where such speeches and statements are directed to incitement of
hatred and hostility, and boldly connect religion, nationality, language, race or
ethnical origin with the illicit behavior, illegal migration or terrorism. Public
disapproval is needed to constrain provoking racial rhetoric and eradicate
stereotypic, racial, hostile or discriminatory images as to the specific national,
ethnical, linguistic or religious minorities, their culture and religion.
8. Undertake strict measures in relation to state and private mass media as well as
other sources of information which contribute to the creation of common negative
stereotypes as to the representatives of national minorities or communities and,
furthermore, to the discriminatory approach based on the well-rooted prejudice.
With this aim to adopt by law Codes of Ethic and Behavior and make them
available in Russian as it is a mother tongue for the most of national minorities’
representatives.
9. Ensure that representatives of national minorities can access information in, among
others, publicly or state-held mass media, in their mother tongue (inter alia, in
Russian) with the aim to raise the awareness of society as to the crimes and
functioning of justice.
II.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
1. Starting from 2009 Legal Information Centre for Human Rights (hereinafter –
“ICHR”) annually get approximately 60-80 petitions from imprisoned in all five jails in
Estonia. In their petitions they ask for the information about their rights and