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Peru Police Encircle Lima Campuses Before Gen Z Protest, Detain San Marcos Law Student Who Is Later Released

Student groups call the campus operation intimidation ahead of the Generación Z mobilization.

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.