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Azul Rojas Marin: Peru found responsible for torture of LGBT person
Source: BBC
Azul Rojas Marín: Peru found responsible for torture of LGBT person
7 April 2020
The top human rights court in the Americas has found Peru responsible for the arbitrary detention and rape of an LGBT person.
Azul Rojas Marín was stripped, hit and raped with a truncheon by three officers while in custody in 2008, her legal team said.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights said it was an act of torture.
It is the court's first ruling on a complaint of torture against the LGBT community.
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In February 2008, Ms Rojas Marín - who is now a transwoman but was then living as a gay man - was detained late at night and taken to a police station in the northern town of Casa Grande.
The human rights groups which represented her - Redress, Peruvian group Promsex and Peru's National Coordinator for Human Rights - said she was beaten, verbally abused for her sexual orientation and robbed of her belongings.
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7 April 2020
The top human rights court in the Americas has found Peru responsible for the arbitrary detention and rape of an LGBT person.
Azul Rojas Marín was stripped, hit and raped with a truncheon by three officers while in custody in 2008, her legal team said.
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights said it was an act of torture.
It is the court's first ruling on a complaint of torture against the LGBT community.
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In February 2008, Ms Rojas Marín - who is now a transwoman but was then living as a gay man - was detained late at night and taken to a police station in the northern town of Casa Grande.
The human rights groups which represented her - Redress, Peruvian group Promsex and Peru's National Coordinator for Human Rights - said she was beaten, verbally abused for her sexual orientation and robbed of her belongings.
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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-52204222