Rape of Iryna Krashkova

Rape of Iryna Krashkova
Crowd near the Vradiivka Raion police department on 2 July 2013
Date	30 June – 3 July 2013
Location	Vradiivka, Ukraine
Caused by	Police brutality, refusal to bring to justice
Methods	picketing, unarmed mob assault on militsiya office
Resulted in	wave of protests across the country, two main suspects were sentenced to jail eventually
Parties
local residents Svoboda local militsiya Berkut detachment government officials
Number
300

The rape of Iryna Krashkova, a 29-year-old woman, on 26 June 2013 by three men in the urban-type settlement of Vradiivka became a cause célèbre in Ukraine when anger at police for not arresting one of the suspects led to angry protests and the storming of the district police department on 1 July 2013.^[1]

The protests occurred alongside another political protests that were taken place in Ukraine under the motto Rise up, Ukraine!.