however, everyone rejected an opportunity to file a complaint in the court out of fear of persecution. The Centre and the Baltic Youth Association “Juvenis” hosted an international Forum “Ethno-Nationalism - a threat to security and stability in the world”. The event was held in the house “Simon-Dach-Haus” (Klaipeda, German Information and Cultural Centre). Participants at the Forum were to discuss: the demarcation of borders between patriotism and nationalism, [and] developing ways to counteract nationalistic manifestations. On 24 August upon their arrival, the Forum participants from Latvia started to receive notices about the 5-year ban on entry into the Republic of Lithuania, with the requirement to leave the country immediately. They were refused entry based on the on the grounds that their “arrival and stay in Lithuania would constitute a threat to national security or public order.” Attempts to find out what threat was posed by Alexander Kuzmin – a human rights activist, member of the board of the Latvian Human Rights Committee and the MEP’s Assistant, were not successful. We want to draw the attention of the United Nations to this tendency of reprisal against dissidence, the ban on maintaining contact for the purposes of study and discussion on human rights and fundamental freedoms and on improvement of the protection of rights of national minorities. In September and October, the Department of especially serious crimes of the criminal police carried out inspection at the request of the mayor of the city of Klaipeda in order to find out whether we had the right to organise this type of an event on the rights protection. We are concerned with the decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Lithuania No 25/3 (On the conformity of point 6 Article 3 of the Law “On the Central Electoral Commission” of the Republic of Lithuania in the version dated of 10 April 2003 of the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania of 10 May 2006), by which the citizens of Lithuania were divided into full-value and not-full-value citizens with regard to their state language proficiency. And the citizens, who are not sufficiently proficient in the state language should not benefit from more lenient conditions for participation in governing of their country. We fully support points 49 and 50. The complaints relating to hate speech against minorities are often ignored by public authorities, and for this reason, official statistics on hate crimes do not reflect the real situation. Victims of crimes often distrust the authorities and are afraid of further victimisation; there is a perception of futility of the fight against crimes and distrust of the legal system among the victims. Thank you for attention! Best regards, Oksana Bekeriene Head of “Centre for Research and Protection of Fundamental Rights”.