GEORGIA The Women’s Initiatives Support Group (WISG) collected 14 hate-motivated incidents in 2016, among them one murder. Out of the incidents that qualify as hate crimes (9), in 5 cases trans sex workers were targeted by private individuals and people posing as clients. The reported cases shed light on frequent maltreatment and violence committed by the police: in several incidents, when the victims/survivors called the police upon facing a violent attack, the police arrested and pressed charges against them based on Article 173 of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia (resisting the request of a police officer) or Article 166 (petty hooliganism), and did not focus on identifying or pressing charges against the offenders. On the 14th of April 2016, late at night, a trans woman was on the pedestrian part of one of the central streets of Tbilisi with her friend when an unknown man approached and started to beat them immediately. She called the ambulance and police. She got arrested for administrative offense based on Article 173 of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia. The victim stated police were being transphobic towards her and she claims she did not commit the administrative offense she was accused of. On the 18th of April the victim was found guilty and sentenced to five days of imprisonment for the offense. HUNGARy During 2016, Transvanilla Transgender Association reported 11 hate-motivated incidents, out of which 2 constituted hate crimes. Both incidents targeted trans women in public spaces; one sexual assault was committed in a bar while the other case was a physical assault where a stranger hit a trans woman on the street. A trans woman was sexually harassed by 2 men in front of the bathroom of a bar. She only managed to get rid of them with the assistance of other customers.