A judge has found three police officers guilty of the killing of a trans sex worker in El Salvador and given each 20 years in prison.
It is the first successful homicide conviction for the killing of a transgender person in the Central American country. El Salvador continues to see high levels of LGBT+ murders, in particular trans murders.
Between October 2019 and April this year, the country saw the homicides of at least seven trans women and two gay men. The evidence suggests the killers were motivated by hatred.
In this case, three police officers arrested 29-year-old trans woman Camila Díaz Córdova early in the morning of 31 January 2019.