Medical College students protest classmate‘s abduction in GroznyTimur Aliyev, North Caucasus - Students at the Medical College of Grozny today staged a rally in protest against the abduction of their classmate.
About a hundred young people marched through the center of the Chechen capital, holding banners and chanting "Set the student free!"
The students were demanding the release of a dental student at the Medical College, who, according to them, had been taken from the school by unknown armed men on March 11.
When the march ended, the students met with the Moscow-backed Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov, who assured them that he would "personally look into this."
Acts of protest by students appear to be gaining momentum in Chechnya. In late February, students at the Medical Faculty of Grozny State University picketed the building of the Moscow-backed Chechen government for three days, demanding the release of their classmate.
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