The four men beat Daniel Zamudio with bottles and rocks, burned him with cigarettes, cut off part of his ear and used broken glass to carve swastikas into his body. He died from his injuries 25 days after the March 2012 attack in a Santiago, Chile, park. Investigators believed he was targeted because he was gay.
ILLUSTRATION BY VAHRAM MURADYAN
After the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, a U.N. official said that huge numbers of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are targeted for assault and murder across the globe each year. “Unfortunately, [that shooting] is a little glimpse into a deep well of hatred that exists in societies across the world,” said Charles Radcliffe of the U.N. Human Rights Office.