Overview
- Hundreds of National Police officers surrounded the campuses of San Marcos and PUCP on Friday as a security measure tied by local reporting to the announced Generación Z protest.
- Video from the San Marcos campus shows more than 10 officers chasing a law student as classmates shout, “Let him go, why are you detaining him?”
- Eyewitnesses in the footage say officers photographed the student's DNI before pursuing and cornering him during the on‑campus intervention.
- The San Marcos alumni collective FESM condemned the operation as arbitrary and part of a systematic policy of intimidation, urging UNMSM authorities to respond.
- Rights group CNDDHH reported the detained student, identified as Máximo Quispe, was taken to a police station for verification and then released.