Madagascar: EU expresses reservations on castration penalty against child rapists. At the beginning of February, the Malagasy Parliament adopted a law providing for a castration sentence for people convicted of raping minors.
Amnesty International asked the authorities in Antananarivo to reconsider the text which the NGO considers contrary to human rights. “I don't believe that castration [...] is a deterrent for rapists,” says Isabelle Delattre-Burger, European Union ambassador to Madagascar.