Washington DC Escorts: BARRIOS-AGUILAR v. HOLDER
Written on July 5, 2010 – 10:49 am | by hookerlooker
During the year, there were at least five killings of male homosexual sex workers. There were no arrests made in any of the killings, and the police who arrived on the scene abused the victims’ companions. There were no arrests in the 2000 killings of five male homosexual sex workers.
Moreover, we take judicial notice that the most recent report, released on March 11, 2010, likewise includes descriptions of police abuse toward homosexuals. The Report details how “[p]olice threatened persons engaged in prostitution and other commercial sexual activities with false drug charges to extort money or sexual favors and harassed lesbians and gay persons and transvestites with similar threats.” 2009 State Department Country Report, Guatemala, available at http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2009/wha/136114.htm. Due to “[a] lack of trust in the judicial system and a fear of further persecution or social recrimination,” victims often do not file complaints. Id.
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