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Seven ex-police officers are jailed for murdering a gay couple in Guatemala · PRIDE Daily

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  Speaker 1: a transgender ice hockey commentator. First though, seven former police
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  Speaker 1: officers involved in the murder of a gay couple in
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  Speaker 1: Guatemala have got between five and 60 years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: Eldeen Chok and Milton Santamaria were homophobically abused and tortured
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  Speaker 1: at a police station in Chimaltenango in April 2024. It's
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  Speaker 1: claimed the pair, aged 28 and 45, were arrested following
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  Speaker 1: an argument at a shop. Police tried to make it
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  Speaker 1: look like they'd been killed in a road accident. Milton's
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  Speaker 1: uncle Jose spoke at the trial, said he raised his
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  Speaker 1: nephew and they were like father and son.
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  Speaker 3: As humans, we cannot be judges of people and act
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  Speaker 3: to take their lives solely based on a social or
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  Speaker 3: sexual idea. In that way, I think the state has
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  Speaker 3: a responsibility. because those who killed the young men are
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  Speaker 3: members of the state.
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  Speaker 1: Previously, two firefighters were jailed for being part of the cover-up.
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  Speaker 1: There were about 30 violent killings of LGBTQ plus people
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  Speaker 1: last year in Guatemala, where there's no hate crime law. Next,
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  Speaker 1: with the Stars, blurred out a pro-transgender Protect the Dolls T-shirt.
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  Speaker 1: And German ice hockey commentator Lara Hubeck's opening up about
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  Speaker 1: her new life as an out transgender woman. The 33-year-old,
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  Speaker 1: who's with Bavarian side Degendorfer SC, went public in May,
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  Speaker 1: off the back of six months of hormone therapy, says
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  Speaker 1: after years of repression, she now feels much more confident
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  Speaker 1: and feminine and hopes to inspire other trans people to
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  Speaker 1: come out. No time to tell you that. Homophobic chanting
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  Speaker 1: seen the club slap with a € 20, 000 fine And in America,
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