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Five years after Nicole Saavedra's hate crime: the trial begins in August
The investigation concluded that Víctor Pulgar was responsible for Nicole's murder. Pulgar had already been arrested and convicted for other rapes.
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The Prosecutor's Office breaks agreement with feminist activists demanding justice for Nicole Saavedra.
The Chilean activists were prosecuted in 2019 for demanding justice for Nicole. After the trial, the Prosecutor's Office was supposed to compensate them by allowing them to paint a mural in homage to the victim of lesbicide. Now, it has broken that agreement.
Activists demand justice for the murder of Nicole Saavedra and end up on trial
By Airam Fernández, from Santiago, Chile. Photos: Presentes Archive [News updated January 14] Chilean courts will prosecute five women who, in June 2019, occupied the Quillota Prosecutor's Office to demand speed and answers in the investigation into the murder of young lesbian Nicole Saavedra. They did so as a form of protest…
Four years without Nicole: a little closer to achieving justice for the young lesbian
Four years after the murder of Nicole Saavedra, for the first time the family of the young Chilean lesbian arrives at this date with the feeling that Justice is a little closer.
#Pride2019 Massive march in Santiago and repression in Quillota
More than 100,000 people took to the streets of Santiago. There was repression and arrests in Quillota.
Three years without justice for Nicole: negligence denounced and calls made for prosecution of lesbicide
Nicole, a 23-year-old lesbian, was last seen alive on June 18, 2016. Three years after her murder, the investigation has not progressed.
The LGBTI year in photos: our best images of 2018
These are some of the images we captured at Presentes throughout the year. Captures of struggle, joy, pain, and pride.
Column #22 Present at You Can't Live on Love 2018
We discussed the ceremony held in Limache, Chile, two years after the murder of Nicole Saavedra and her family's demand for justice. We also covered the 18th Pride March through the streets of Santiago and the progress made in the investigation into the murder of Paloma, Chile's oldest transgender woman, among other topics.
Two years after the hate crime, Nicole Saavedra is remembered and the prosecutor is relieved of his duties.
Two years after her murder, the crime of Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes, the young lesbian woman killed in June 2016, remains unsolved. Last week, the National Prosecutor's Office informed the family that the investigation will now be led by a woman. This gives them more confidence, her family told Presentes during a ceremony held at the exact spot where her body was found two years ago.
#CHILE The hate crime against Nicole Saavedra remains unpunished: appeal to the National Prosecutor's Office
The case of Nicole Saavedra Bahamondes, a young lesbian murdered almost two years ago, is stalled. Her family met with the National Prosecutor in a meeting attended by lesbian and feminist organizations.