The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has issued a landmark ruling that says Peru is responsible for the rape and torture of a transgender woman.
Azul Rojas Marín alleges police officers in Casa Grande, a town in the La Libertad region of northern Peru that is roughly 370 miles northwest of the country’s capital of Lima, detained her on Feb.
25, 2008. Rojas says she was forcibly stripped and beaten before two officers sodomized her with a police baton. Rojas filed a formal complaint against