拉脱维亚出台了一个综合法律框架，用于依据《刑事诉讼法》的条款和专门的 《人员特别保护法》保护证人。受保护者包括受害人、证人或其他就严重犯罪 或特别严重犯罪作证或已经作证的人（该法第 4 条第 1 款）。 特别程序保护的基础是存在对某人生命、健康或财产的真实威胁；真实威胁表 示；或向负责诉讼的人员提供充足依据使其相信存在与证词提供者有关的真实 威胁（《刑事诉讼法》第 300 条第 1 款）。《刑事诉讼法》第 308 条和第 309 条 涉及使证人和专家能够以确保自身安全的方式出庭作证的证据规则。
Latvia has put in place a comprehensive legal framework for the protection of witnesses, based on provisions of the CPL and the specific Law on Special Protection of Persons. Among the persons protected are the victims, witnesses or other persons who testify or have testified regarding a serious or especially serious crime (section 4, paragraph 1, of the Law). The basis for special procedural protection is the existence of a real threat to life, health or property of a person, expressed real threats, or information that provides a person directing the proceedings with a sufficient basis for believing that a threat may be real in connection with the testimony provided by such person (section 300, paragraph 1 CPL). Sections 308 and 309 CPL deal with the evidentiary rules allowing witnesses and experts to give testimony before the court in a manner that ensures their safety.