Peruvians demand justice for Trans activist's death in Indonesia
Peruvian LGBTQ activists held a protest on August 26 to demand justice for Rodrigo Ventosilla, a Peruvian graduate student at Harvard University and Trans rights activist who died in Bali of "body failure" after being detained for cannabis possession. Ventosilla was visiting the tourist island to celebrate his honeymoon.

The government's handling of Ventosilla's death is especially in question. In a statement, Peru's foreign ministry called his alleged drug possession a serious crime in Indonesia, and said that transphobia had not influenced his arrest.

"We reject and condemn the foreign ministry's statement," said Luz Manriquez, an LGBTQ activist at a protest in Lima. She added that the government's statement was biased for adopting Indonesia's position without demanding an investigation. "It lacks empathy, because it does not recognize that a Peruvian has died in the hands of police from another country," she said.

Ventosilla family lawyer Brenda Alvarez told reporters that the foreign ministry has agreed to apologize for the statements made, and launch an investigation.

"Even if you are detained in another country, it is unreal and painful that [the Peruvian government] can leave you like this," said Arturo Davila, a member of Trans rights group Diversidades Trans Masculinas, which Ventosilla founded.

EuroPride faces cancellation in Serbia over fears of "instability"
Pointing to threats from right-wing extremists and potential clashes, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced the cancellation of Belgrade's EuroPride event in mid-September.

"It's not the question of whether they [extremists] are stronger," Vucic said, "but you just can't do it all at the same moment, and that's it. I am not happy about it, but we can't manage."

Vucic also blamed a crisis with neighboring country Kosovo and economic problems. "This is a violation of minority rights," he said, "but at this moment the state is pressured by numerous problems."

EuroPride organizer Kristine Garina called on Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic to make good on a promise to support the event.

"President Vucic cannot cancel someone else's event," Garina said. "The right to hold Pride has been ruled by the European Court of Human Rights to be a fundamental human right."

Goran Miletic, another organizer in Serbia, said that stopping the march would take a formal police ban, to which organizers would respond with a court complaint. Indoor portions of Pride, Miletic insisted, couldn't be banned.

The government said later that "there are no conditions to hold the EuroPride 2022 safely," and that "certain extremist groups could use and abuse the event and Serbia's will to host it, to increase tensions and lead Serbia into instability."