A 38-year-old Latvian immigrant charged with sex trafficking and inciting prostitution appeared in a British court April 1, local media and the BBC reported.

Pēteris Kalva is accused of importing a 26-year-old woman from Latvia and selling her sexual services in July and August 2007 around the town of Wisbech in the county of Cambridgeshire, which is in east central England.

Kalva denies the charges, the Peterborough Evening Telegraph reported. Kalva appeared in Cambridge Crown Court.

Kalva is alleged to have arranged for the woman’s travel from Latvia to Great Britain, where she was to work in a food factory. Instead, prosecutor Angela Rafferty told the court, Kalva took her passport and wages, and forced her into prostitution.

The prosecution alleges Kalva sold the woman’s sexual services for GBP 50 per encounter, allowing her to keep GBP 20.

The woman apparently had been sold for sex in Latvia, too, the prosecutor said, according to media reports.

If convicted, Kalva could face up to 14 years in jail. His trial was scheduled to continue April 2.

A documentary film by a Latvian director that claims “the Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany instigate the Holocaust” will see its premiere April 9 at the European Parliament in Belgium.

The documentary, The Soviet Story, is directed by Edvīns Šnore, who spent 10 years gathering information and two years filming in several countries, according to the film’s Web site, sovietstory.com.

The English-language documentary runs 85 minutes. It is produced by Rīga-based SIA Labvakar.

Among those interviewed in the film are Western and Russian historians, as well as survivors of the Soviet Gulag.

The chief sponsor of the production is the conservative alliance Union for Europe of the Nations, whose members include four members of the European Parliament from Latvia, all members of For Fatherland and Freedom (Tēvzemei un Brīvībai / LNNK). Also supporting the film are the Rīga City Council and the magazine Tēvijas Sargs.

The premiere is scheduled at 18:00 hours April 9 in Room 5B001 in the PHS Building of the European Parliament in Brussels.