Linards Grantiņš

Linards Grantiņš (born 1950) is a Latvian former human rights activist who was among the founders of the Latvian human rights activist group Helsinki-86 in 1986.

He later established the hate site Tautastribunals.eu (Latvian for "People's Tribunal.eu") in 2006, which regularly accuses and issues "verdicts" of capital punishment to self-identified "traitors of the Latvian state". He was arrested in 2015 for inciting national, ethnic and racial hatred.

Biography Grantiņš was born in Siberia, where his family was deported to by the Soviet regime in 1949. Grantiņš returned to Soviet-occupied Latvia in 1956.

In 1986, while working as an amber craftsman in Liepāja, he co-founded Helsinki-86 and helped to organize the first commemoration of the victims of the June 1941 Soviet deportations since the Second World War at Riga's Freedom Monument in 1987, filming the events and sending the tape outside the USSR.

In 2013, MP Valērijs Agešins asked to initiate criminal proceedings against Grantiņš for making veiled threats against him on his website, but the request was refused.