Rosmit Mantilla, a lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights activist and member of the opposition Popular Will (Voluntad Popular) party, has been detained for nearly a year by the National Intelligence Service (Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional, SEBIN). On the 30th of January 2015, after nine months of procedural delays during which the committal hearing was postponed 11 times, and despite the lack of credible evidence, the judge ordered that Rosmit Mantilla should face trial.
