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UBA Student Detained After Defying 60-Day Ban at Social Sciences Faculty

Authorities ordered a psychiatric evaluation citing threats reported on campus.

Overview

  • The student, who had been barred from entry for 60 days under an administrative process, returned to the Social Sciences building on Tuesday and refused to leave.
  • Several students carried him out of the building, an episode captured in widely shared videos that show him held by the arms and legs as people shouted at him.
  • Faculty officials requested assistance, and the Unidad de Flagrancia Este, which handles in-the-act cases, ordered his detention and a transfer to Hospital Ramos Mejía for a psychiatric evaluation.
  • Police from Comisaría 1C and emergency medics from SAME responded on site, and the faculty filed a formal complaint at the station.
  • Right-leaning social media accounts framed the episode as ideological discrimination, a claim denied by witnesses and student organizer Federico Winokur, who cited repeated harassment reports and noncompliance.