Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico,
March 19th, 2026.
Press Release No. 3
FGE and FRIP in Direct Circle of Cruel Torture of Oscar Trinidad Carbajal
International complaint filed with the IACHR and the UN: We demand protection and justice for Oscar Trinidad Carbajal and his family.
The Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Center for Human Rights (Frayba) documented that on November 4th, 2025, Oscar Trinidad Carbajal, a young merchant from Tapachula, was detained and tortured while walking the streets of his city. He was arrested without a warrant by members of the Pakal Immediate Reaction Force (FRIP). They took him to the Border District Attorney’s Office, known as Akishino, where they demanded money: two million pesos. When he refused, the torture began. They handcuffed him, threw him to the ground, suffocated him with plastic bags until he lost consciousness, beat him, and humiliated him with words intended to break his will. An officer kicked him in the stomach until he convulsed. They forced him to drink bitter liquids, knocked him unconscious, and had to be resuscitated with CPR because he had stopped breathing.
Transferred to the IMSS General Hospital in Tapachula, he was admitted with serious diagnoses: post-cardiac arrest syndrome, acute kidney injury, and rhabdomyolysis. There, the same agents who had tortured him were guarding him and telling the doctors he was drugged, trying to cover up the violence they had inflicted. Oscar demanded a blood test, seeking to defend his truth amidst the institutional manipulation.
Meanwhile, his family searched for him desperately. On November 5th, they went to hospitals and the Prosecutor’s Office, where they were denied information. Only when they recognized Oscar’s car in the parking lot did they learn that he had been there and that he had been rushed to the hospital. The lack of communication, the threats, and the cover-up were all part of the same pattern.
On November 6th, 2025, Oscar Trinidad remained incommunicado and under constant threats. FRIP agents showed him photos of his house and told him, “Now you’re going to cooperate, we know what you do and what you’re involved in!” At the hospital, he only received IV fluids and sedatives. That same day, between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m., he was violently transferred again from the clinic to the Prosecutor’s Office. During the journey, the agents physically assaulted him and drove at high speed, causing an accident in which a police officer died. Although an ambulance arrived to assist him, the torture continued inside: blows to his stomach, ribs, and head, death threats, and even attempts at strangulation, which only stopped when the presence of bystanders forced the attack to cease.
That night, the FRIP ordered his transfer from the hospital to the Prosecutor’s Office, where the torture persisted until a federal court clerk served notice of the injunction filed by his family. The Prosecutor’s Office attempted to justify the arrest that same day, claiming he was caught in flagranti, and opened Investigation File C.I.1229 for the crimes of resisting arrest and drug possession. However, this version is implausible: Oscar was hospitalized at the time of the alleged arrest.
On November 7th, the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered his release with reservations under the law, but another court order was immediately executed, charging him with drug dealing (C.I.1227). He was transferred to the Control Court attached to CERSS No. 03, where he was tortured again. The investigation rests on dubious testimony: a person who allegedly delivered drugs to the Prosecutor’s Office and identified Oscar as responsible for threats made days earlier.
The case of Oscar Trinidad reveals how the accusatory criminal justice system can be manipulated to fabricate guilt and legitimize state violence. On November 7th, 2025, despite his critical condition, the Judge of the Tapachula Control Court ordered him held in pretrial detention under criminal case number 517/2025. During transfers between the courthouse and the hospital, Oscar was tortured again. On November 9th, he received notification of a second injunction to guarantee urgent medical attention, but the negligence persisted. On November 11th, he was taken to another clinic under the custody of the FRIP (Pakales), where he suffered further abuse.
The medical records show serious inconsistencies: multiple open files for the same person, omission of proper protocols, lack of clinical follow-up, and contradictory diagnoses. Injuries such as eye trauma, facial fractures, and complications resulting from torture (rhabdomyolysis, kidney failure, post-cardiac arrest syndrome) are documented. Furthermore, discriminatory language was used when attributing pathologies to alleged drug use without laboratory evidence.
The background information shows that, weeks before his arrest, Oscar had been harassed and extorted by the FRIP, who demanded money from him in exchange for allowing him to work. On November 1st, he was arrested and pressured to pay two million pesos as “protection money.”
This pattern demonstrates how corruption is embedded in the accusatory criminal justice system: first extortion, then arbitrary detention, torture, and finally the fabrication of evidence. The Prosecutor’s Office constructed an implausible version of events, coordinating authorities to frame him through fabricated evidence. Our documentation has corroborated a systematic pattern of behavior by officials linked to operations of the State Attorney General’s Office, with at least 20 similar cases registered between 2010 and 2025; four of them directly related to the FRIP in different municipalities of Chiapas.
Despite the legal appeals filed, impunity prevails. Oscar Trinidad remains arbitrarily deprived of his liberty, while he and his family face a direct risk to their lives and safety due to systematic harassment by the FRIP.
We make a special appeal to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) to guarantee access to health services and, when faced with situations like that of Oscar Trinidad, to uphold the paramount interest of life and not yield to external pressures.
The story of Oscar Trinidad Carbajal reflects a systematic pattern of torture, the fabrication of guilt, and pacts of impunity that endanger the lives and dignity of individuals. For this reason, the family and Frayba have filed a Request for Precautionary Measures with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and submitted urgent information to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, as well as a petition to the UN Committee Against Torture.
We demand that Oscar Trinidad be immediately guaranteed adequate medical and psychological care, that the substitution of pretrial detention with an alternative measure that does not worsen his health be evaluated, and that protective measures be adopted for him and his family against possible reprisals for having spoken out. Finally, we call for a swift, independent, and expedited investigation into the members of the FRIP, one that breaks the pacts of silence and impunity that have allowed these acts of violence to continue.
We demand that the Mexican government guarantee the life of Oscar Trinidad and the safety of his family, which depend on institutions acting decisively and assuming their responsibility to guarantee truth, justice, and reparations. It is essential that the widely disseminated slogan of “Zero Impunity” cease to be an empty slogan and become an effective reality, capable of protecting the victims and survivors of serious human rights violations and putting an end to the violence and the pacts of silence that sustain torture and corruption.
We urgently call for national and international solidarity so that, from every possible platform, the Mexican State is urged to halt this massive act of social injustice, which amounts to state-sponsored terror. The situation of Oscar Trinidad is not an isolated incident, but rather part of a systematic pattern of torture, framing, and persecution against those who dare to resist. Therefore, we call upon organizations, collectives, communities, and individuals in solidarity to raise their voices and demand immediate protection, medical attention, and justice, as well as an end to the pacts of impunity that sustain institutional violence. Defending Oscar Trinidad is also defending human dignity against the machinery of terror and corruption.
Original article by Frayba, March 19th, 2026.
Translated by Frayba