Reacting to an intensifying campaign of repression against Gen Z activists and civil society members by Madagascar’s military authorities, which took power following a coup in October 2025, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “Malagasy authorities are using deliberately vague charges of criminal conspiracy, threats to national security and destabilization of the state to silence Gen Z activists and civil society members. No one should face arbitrary arrest, detention or enforced disappearance simply for voicing their concerns about the running of their country. Malagasy authorities are using deliberately vague charges of criminal conspiracy, threats to national security and destabilization of the state to silence Gen Z activists and civil society members.…