This report details Amnesty International’s concerns regarding the homophobic harassment, torture, ill-treatment and attempted extrajudicial execution by police officers of LGBT people in Ecuador since October 2000. The report includes cases of torture of transvestites and intimidation and...

This document focuses on the torture of lesbian, gay, isexual and trangendered (LGBT) people as a specific group of victims of torture today; and is an extract from “Take a step to stamp out torture”, the launch report of AI’s campaign against torture.

Organizations defending the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Ecuador continue to receive death threats.

Another organisation, Juventud Arco Iris (Rainbow Youth), defending the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people has received email death threats from a group that has threatened to kill LGBT people in Ecuador.

A homophobic group has said that in April it will start to kill members of the human rights organisation Quitogay, and to wipe out the rest of Ecuador’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) community. The threat comes at a time when the police themselves are accused of torturing...