Activists light the torches as they rally to demand justice for the murdered activist Kateryna (Katya) Gandziuk in Kyiv on May 18, 2019. Gandziuk was attacked with acid in July 2018 in her hometown Kherson. She died of her wounds three months later.

People in some 40 Ukrainian cities and eight cities abroad rallied on May 18 to demand justice for Kateryna (Katya) Gandziuk, a Ukrainian activist who was killed in an acid attack in 2018.

Despite the media attention to the case and public pressure, authorities only detained direct perpetrators and organizers of the attacked. Activists, including Gandziuk’s friends and family, have been demanding that those who ordered the murder are found and prosecuted. They suspect that high-ranking officials in Gandziuk’s hometown Kherson were involved in the attack.