Medical students reveal the number of arrests among their ranks after they were prevented from protesting in Rabat, amid calls for new protests.

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The National Committee for Medical, Pharmacy and Dentistry Students in Morocco revealed that 15 students and their families were abused and arrested during a sit-in organized yesterday, Wednesday, in front of the Faculty of Medicine in Rabat.

In its report, the committee held the government and officials, in the person of Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch and Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Miraoui responsible for what happened, demanding an official apology against the backdrop of what it called a “brutal attack.”

In a related context, the committee denounced “the government’s repressive approach, which culminated in harming the dignity of student doctors and their parents in blatant violation of the Constitution,” stressing that “violent and barbaric intervention was carried out on the students, their mothers, and their fathers, as – according to preliminary information – about 15 students and even Their families, in addition to the injury of a number of students and the fainting of others as a result of the brutal intervention, pushing, kicking, and severe beatings, along with insults and cursing.”

The committee’s report expressed the latter’s regret over these events, calling for “the immediate release of all detained students and their families, to avoid further tension,” and “to stop the bleeding of the public medical college and to retreat from the failed policies that did not produce a solution for nearly a year.”

In response to these events, the committee stated that it is expected to organize protests in all university hospitals, today, Thursday, “in denunciation of the abuse and insults that future doctors have been subjected to,” stressing that it has decided to “hold public gatherings for seventh-year students to discuss the boycott of the appointments session.”

It should be noted that medical students in both the cities of Rabat and Tangier had announced the organization of sit-ins in front of college headquarters, in protest against what they described as “the deaf ears of the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, Abdellatif Miraoui,” before public authorities intervened to break them up. .