Three Salvadoran police officers have been convicted in the murder of Camila Díaz Córdova, a trans woman who was deported from the U.S. in 2018 after attempting to seek asylum.\n
of Camila Díaz Córdova, a trans woman who was deported from the U.S. in 2018 after attempting to seek asylum.The officers—identified as Jaime Geovany Mendoza Rivas, Luis Alfredo Avelar Sandoval and Carlos Valentín Rosales Carpio—were convicted on charges of aggravated homicide and face 20 years in prison each, Human Rights WatchDíaz Córdova tried repeatedly to flee to the U.S.
Violence against trans women in El Salvador is so notorious that it prompted the U.N to call for an investigation in 2017. Local advocacy groups report that at least 600 trans people have been murdered in the country since 1993.Between October 2019 and April 2020, at least seven trans women and two gay men were murdered in the country, and the details of the cases lead authorities to believe the murders were motivated by the vicitms’ gender identities or sexual orientations.
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El Salvador police officers convicted of killing deported trans woman3 police officers were convicted in a Salvadoran court for the 2019 murder of Camila Díaz Córdova, a transgender woman who had been deported from the US. - NBCOUT
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