Peru opens torture investigation over trans man's death in Indonesia

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators hold up signs during a protest to demand justice for Rodrigo Ventocilla, a Peruvian graduate student at Harvard and activist for transgender rights who died on the island of Bali days after being detained for alleged cannabis possession along with his husband, outside Peru's foreign ministry building, in Lima, Peru August 26, 2022. REUTERS/Angel Ponce

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian prosecutors have opened an investigation for alleged torture over the death in Indonesia last month of a trans Peruvian man who died while in custody in the tourist island of Bali, the country's public ministry said on Thursday.

Rodgrigo Ventocilla, 32, was a Peruvian graduate student at Harvard celebrating his honeymoon in Bali. His death has outraged LGBT activists who have accused Peruvian diplomats of not doing enough to protect him.