Madagascar has convicted a former Senate president over the 2025 protest crackdown, but no soldiers, gendarmes or police have faced charges for the deaths
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At least 22 people were killed and over 100 injured in Madagascar's September-October 2025 youth-led protests, according to UN figures cited by local media. On 2 September 2026 a court sentenced former Senate president Richard Ravalomanana to 10 years of hard labour for complicity in murder, accused of directing security forces to use violence; he denies it and plans to appeal. Amnesty International wrote in March 2026 that there was a 'lack of serious effort to investigate soldiers, gendarmes and police' who killed protesters, that investigations had so far targeted only the former Senate president and a former education minister, and that Parliament had not operationalised the commission meant to investigate senior officials.
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