Madagascar passed a law this week to impose surgical or chemical castration sentences on convicted rapists of minors. Amnesty International calls on Antananarivo to “repeal’ this text, affirming that chemical or surgical castration “constitutes cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” Madagascar, a large island in the Indian Ocean, “is a sovereign country which has every right to modify its laws” in the general interest, defended the Minister of Justice, Landy Mbolatiana Randriamanantenasoa.