20 January 2020, 11:25

Tbilisi activist detained after trying to defend transgender women

The police detained one of the transgender women who were attacked in Tbilisi and activist Nata Peradze, who stood up for the detainee.

On January 18, unidentified persons attacked a group of transgender women in Tbilisi. Policemen detained one of the victims and Nata Peradze, the head of the NGO "Partisans-Gardeners", who tried to help the transgender women, the "News-Georgia" reports.

The activist was detained after she criticized the actions of the law enforcers and threatened a policeman with a slap in his face if he "once again demanded from the transgender woman to calm down," the "Sputnik Georgia" reports.

The "Caucasian Knot" has also reported about other cases of attacks on LGBT people in Georgia. So, on January 28, 2018, in Tbilisi, transgender woman Miranda Pagava, an LGBT activist, was attacked, and on February 6, 2018, she and two other transgender persons were beaten.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 19, 2020 at 01:10 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

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