LGBTQ activists in Peru demand autopsy after transgender man dies following police custody in Bali

LGBTQ rights activists rallied outside the prosecutor’s office on Wednesday to demand an autopsy be performed on a Peruvian transgender man who died earlier this month after being detained on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Rodrigo Ventocilla, a 32-year-old graduate student at Harvard University, died on August 11 at a Bali hospital. He had been detained on August 6 after arriving at the island’s airport. His Peruvian husband, Sebastian Marallano, was also detained when he tried to help Mr Ventocilla.
The couple, who married in Chile, went to Bali on their honeymoon.
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