Murder Trial for El Salvador Transgender Woman to Proceed

Expand A transgender woman shows a photograph of Camila Díaz, whom she met while migrating to the US, where they both turned themselves in to immigration authorities. Both women were eventually deported. © 2020 AP Photo/Salvador Melendez An investigating judge in San Salvador ruled today that a criminal case against three police officers charged with unlawful deprivation of liberty and the aggravated homicide of Camila Díaz Córdova, a transgender woman murdered in January 2019, can proceed to trial. If the police officers are found guilty, it would be El Salvador’s first homicide conviction…

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