Malagasy Foreign Ministry demands the return of the EU ambassador to the country. Isabelle Delattre Burger had criticized a law to castrate child rapists.
Amnesty International called the punishment “cruel, inhumane and degrading” Such a punishment violates human rights and also contradicts the laws against torture and ill-treatment in Madagascar, Amnesty International said. The bill initially proposed surgically castrating perpetrators of abuse of very young children. Chemical castration should be used when raping minors older than 13 years.