Employees of the Adjara Police Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia detained G.CH., born in 1990, as a result of investigative and procedural activities into the act of violence on the grounds of gender identity intolerance after having obtained a court order. The investigation revealed that in Batumi during nighttime hours at the crossing of Baratashvili and Chavchavadze streets the individual verbally and physically assaulted a transgender woman, A.M, on the basis of gender intolerance. The investigation is in progress into the act of violence in accordance with the first part of the Article 126 of the Georgian Criminal Code.
