Dear colleagues,

We want to draw your attention to the recent incident of transphobic violence that happened in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, November 20, 2010, on the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Unknown persons attacked the peaceful gathering organized by NGO "Insight" and Visual Culture Center. One of the organizers from Insight Timur Lysenko was physically attacked, other participants have heavily suffered from the tear-gas. The attackers have escaped.

Timur and another activist have filed complaints to the police. At the moment we are encouraging other participants to file claims to the police in order to get as many complaints as possible. This is needed to press the authorities to recognize this case as a hate crime. So far police pre-qualified this attack as "hooliganism".

Please see attached file for more details (in English and Russian).

We kindly ask you to forward this information further to whom it may concern.

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