Katekhon (Катехон) is a Ukrainian far-right protest group, it has taken part in pickets alongside the Sisterhood of Saint Olga, C14, Tradition and Order, Right Sector, Monolith ,National Corps and Brotherhood based on various disputes, particularly LGBT issues:
On May 17 activists of Ukrainian right-wing radical groups, such as “C14”, “Tradition and Order”, “Right Sector”, “Monolit”, and “Katekhon”, held the action “Nationalists against the leftists from Amnesty”.
In March 2018, members of Tradition and Order, Right Sector and another far-right group, the National Corps, blocked3 the entrance to the Shevchenkivskyi District Court during the hearing of Olena Shevchenko, the head of the LGBT+ organization “Insight.” Shevchenko had been issued a administrative violation during the Women’s March in Kyiv on March 8, 2018. The far-right demonstrators broke into the courtroom with weapons, and Shevchenko had to be evacuated through an emergency exit.
On November 18, 2018, members of Tradition and Order, as well as members of the far-right groups Brotherhood and Katekhon, tried to disrupt an event in Kyiv marking the International Transgender Day of Remembrance according to participants in the march. A lack of police action enabled the right-wing radicals to hamper the event, including by using tear gas and smoke bombs and physically attacking several people, including journalists.12
On December 19, 2018, Tradition and Order and Katekhon picketed the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, demanding that the Cabinet scrap decision 390/2017, which established the position of a Commissioner for Gender Policy. They also demanded the dismissal of the new Commissioner, Kateryna Levchenko.14
Not to be confused with the similarly named Pro-Russian think tank “Katehon”.
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