Overview

• Andrea Tamara Balderas Alegría, identified in official reports as A.T.B.A., was found dead on September 13 inside a municipal police cell in Salina Cruz after being detained.
• The Oaxaca state prosecutor’s office activated its feminicide protocol and took 10 municipal officers who were on duty to the regional vice prosecutor’s office for initial statements.
• The Instituto de Servicios Periciales reported mechanical asphyxia by incomplete suspension as the medical cause of death.
• Prosecutors are extracting and analyzing recordings from cameras inside the command center to evaluate possible omissions or misconduct in the detainee’s custody.
• The state human-rights ombudsman opened a complaint and met with the family, whose members allege visible facial bruising, as comparisons resurface to a contested 2022 custodial death in the same facility.