A parliamentarian who organised Ukraine's pro-EU protests, in which thousands demanded the removal of President Viktor Yanukovych, was assaulted on Friday night in the latest in a series of violent attacks on the demonstrations' organisers.
Andriy Illienko, a Svoboda Party MP, and party activist and lawyer Sydir
Kizin were leaving a police station in central Kiev when they were set
upon by a gang of youths. Around a dozen men reportedly kicked and
punched the two men but fled when the attack was interrupted by two
passers-by, who Svoboda said had rescued their members from “probable
death”.
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