Law enforcement officers from Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region in central Ukraine have caused a stir after LGBTQ+ rights organization “Our World” appealed to them to investigate a possible assault against a transgender person in the city. Instead of investigating the attack as an assault or hate crime, Zhytomyr police filed the incident as a “robbery”, sparking outcries from human rights organizations.
Hromadske: Police file assault against transgender as robbery
Police car patrols Kyiv streets on July 7, 2015.
