Overview

• Sandra Lucía Téllez Nieves was arrested this weekend in Eloy, Arizona, after Interpol issued a red notice based on a 2022 re-arrest order
• She holds a definitive Supreme Court sentence for culpable homicide of 49 children and culpable injuries to more than 100 minors in the 2009 Hermosillo day-care fire
• The victims’ families and activists from Manos Unidas por Nuestros Niños have sent open letters to President Claudia Sheinbaum and Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero demanding her immediate return
• Relatives say neither the Fiscalía General de la República nor the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores has provided any formal update on her detention or the extradition process
• Her legal team has filed for political asylum in the United States, a step activists warn could delay her repatriation to Mexico