KyRGyzSTAN In Kyrgyzstan, out of the 9 hate crimes recorded by Labrys Kyrgyzstan, 2 involved sex workers. In one of the incidents, police raided a sex worker’s apartment after the Minister of Internal Affairs had made a statement about cleaning the city from sex workers. Trans women sex workers were detained and exposed to humiliation and mockery at the police station. Invited journalists filmed them on camera without concealing their identities, and one trans woman was asked questions such as, “do you want to change your passport?” and “do you plan to have surgery?” The use of Internet and media platforms to humiliate and out trans people occurs in other cases as well, such as in a video distributed in online social media networks, in which the crossdresser victim/survivor was forced to remove the wig from their head and announce their name according to their passport. Another trend is the negative interaction with public officials, specifically police officers and border control staff. The long-term effects of the attacks led most victims to face depression and live in fear of another attack. The victim’s colleagues did not know his gender identity. Once, when he arrived at work, cisgender men colleagues gathered and asked him to come out to them. They surrounded him and began to tell him that they knew about his identity, asking the trans man to show his genitals. The victim tried to justify himself, saying that it was not true in order to avoid physical violence. At this point, the director of the company came and led the victim out from the crowd. Thus, he managed to escape possible physical and sexual abuse. A trans woman sex worker had some drinks with two men. They found out that she was trans and knocked out her teeth in a brutally violent act. She lost consciousness. The perpetrators put a bag on her head, took her out of the city to a river and attempted to drown her. Luckily, a passing witness came to her rescue.