Lima: LGBTQ rights activists rallied outside the prosecutor’s office on Wednesday and demanded that an autopsy be conducted for a Peruvian transgender man who died earlier this month after being detained on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali Went.
Rodrigo ventosillaa 32-year-old graduate student Harvard University, died on August 11 in a hospital in Bali. He was detained since 6 August after arriving at the island’s airport. her Peruvian husband, Sebastian Maralanowas also taken into custody when he tried to help Ventosila.
The couple, who got married in Chile, went to Bali on their honeymoon.
Ventosila’s body has been retrieved from Indonesia and is expected to reach Lima soon, and her relatives want officials to be there. Peru To determine the cause of death, he said he suspected Ventosila abused by Indonesian authorities. Indonesian officials deny this.
“She was detained because of her gender identity. Her identity document did not match her appearance. This made her a suspect for Indonesian police. She was forcibly removed, tortured and died,” luzmo henriquezA representative of the family of the deceased told The. told The Associated Press,
Indonesian authorities deny any acts of violence and discrimination. “Everything went according to standard operation,” Stephens Satake Buyu SetiantoA spokesman for the Bali police said on Monday.
Officials in Indonesia said customs officials found a package of brownies with Ventosila they suspected might contain cannabis and handed it over to police. Officials said Ventosila was taken to the hospital on the morning of August 9 after complaining of symptoms of depression and abdominal pain. He died in the hospital on 11 August.
LGBTQ activists protest Peru’s foreign ministry Last week, it complained that Peruvian authorities did not investigate Ventosila’s death independently and without question welcomed Indonesian officials’ version.
Rodrigo ventosillaa 32-year-old graduate student Harvard University, died on August 11 in a hospital in Bali. He was detained since 6 August after arriving at the island’s airport. her Peruvian husband, Sebastian Maralanowas also taken into custody when he tried to help Ventosila.
The couple, who got married in Chile, went to Bali on their honeymoon.
Ventosila’s body has been retrieved from Indonesia and is expected to reach Lima soon, and her relatives want officials to be there. Peru To determine the cause of death, he said he suspected Ventosila abused by Indonesian authorities. Indonesian officials deny this.
“She was detained because of her gender identity. Her identity document did not match her appearance. This made her a suspect for Indonesian police. She was forcibly removed, tortured and died,” luzmo henriquezA representative of the family of the deceased told The. told The Associated Press,
Indonesian authorities deny any acts of violence and discrimination. “Everything went according to standard operation,” Stephens Satake Buyu SetiantoA spokesman for the Bali police said on Monday.
Officials in Indonesia said customs officials found a package of brownies with Ventosila they suspected might contain cannabis and handed it over to police. Officials said Ventosila was taken to the hospital on the morning of August 9 after complaining of symptoms of depression and abdominal pain. He died in the hospital on 11 August.
LGBTQ activists protest Peru’s foreign ministry Last week, it complained that Peruvian authorities did not investigate Ventosila’s death independently and without question welcomed Indonesian officials’ version.