Franchesca lost an eye to the gunshot wound, and the man, a customer, fled. The 31-year-old woman remained in intensive care until today, and the Formosa Women's Secretariat intervened in the attack.
A 17-year-old boy was the victim of a brutal sexual assault near Caaguazú. There are strong suspicions that it was an attempted "corrective rape." The young man had been receiving threats and facing discrimination because of his sexual orientation. Two people have already been charged in the case.
In less than 48 hours, two young people were physically attacked because of their sexual orientation in very close proximity to each other in the City of Buenos Aires. Both incidents occurred in the early morning hours. Presentes consulted the records of the Buenos Aires LGBT Ombudsman's Office: reports of attacks and human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity increased dramatically in 2016.
In the heart of Buenos Aires, a group of twenty-somethings attacked Charly, 37, because of his sexual orientation. Charly declined to file a police report and told Presentes that it had been many years since he had experienced a homophobic attack on the street. Although there are laws protecting LGBTQ+ people, why are victims afraid to report these incidents?
Briggite Viola Rodríguez was attacked on June 10th, beaten and insulted. “Faggot, fucking Peruvian!” she yelled. She went to the Chilean justice system and reported the transphobic and racist attack. A security camera in an elevator recorded the aggressor, a man she had met at a nightclub.
Claudia Vasquez Haro reports that her attacker broke into her home last night in the La Loma neighborhood of La Plata. He was armed with a rolling pin, a knife, and a bottle. He kept saying, "I'm going to kill you," while beating her. The investigation is being handled by Prosecutor's Office No. 1.
The justice system will investigate the death of Héctor Orlando Arce. He was the victim of a suspected homophobic crime that has shocked the town of Buin, where he lived. Witnesses are being asked to come forward with any information that may help reconstruct the events and identify those responsible.
A group of young men attacked a transgender woman in Córdoba and filmed it in the General Paz neighborhood, near the city's civic center. The attackers posted the video this week on their social media accounts as a "joke," sparking outrage among some of their contacts, who then shared it widely.
More than one hundred people gathered in front of the Malvinas Argentinas Prosecutor's Office to support the family, who demanded and obtained their first meeting with the prosecutor in the case, Germán Muñoz Weigel. There, they learned that there had been no progress in recent months and that further evidence was needed to change the charges or request his release.
This was stated by Carolina Abregú, a representative of the Gender Advocacy Office in Malvinas Argentinas, who is in constant contact with the family of Analía de Jesús, detained at the San Martín police station since October 16. Higui is accused of "simple homicide" after defending herself against a group of men who attacked her for being a lesbian and attempted to rape her. In an interview with Presentes, Abregú referred to the letter Higui sent her from jail last January, which has recently gone viral.
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