KIEV: Two Ukrainian policemen were hospitalised after they tried to disperse about 30 young men who attacked a rally by gay and transgender rights activists in the eastern city of Kharkiv, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
Video footage from the event released by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty showed hooded hooligans burning an LGBT rainbow flag and attacking the event’s participants as well as the police outside a government building.
The Kharkiv police told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency that they arrested four of the assailants on Wednesday. They face up to five years in jail if convicted of using force against law enforcement …read more
Source: theSun
