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August 4, 2020

3 Salvadoran Officers Sentenced to 20 Years for Killing a Trans Woman Who Was Deported from the U.S.
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In El Salvador, a judge sentenced three police officers to 20 years each
for the 2019 killing of 29-year-old Camila Díaz Córdova, a transgender
woman. Prosecutors say the officers brutally assaulted her, then threw
her out of a moving vehicle. Díaz Córdova had been deported from the
U.S. a year before she was killed. The case marks the first homicide
conviction for the killing of a transgender person in El Salvador.


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