New political prisoners behind bars

The struggle is on in the south eastern Manakara city between the ousted mayor and the new administrator imposed by the HAT. The city is not the country’s first one to host a serious attack against its leading official.

Mayors sailing under Marc Ravalomanana’s TIM party colors have actually regularly been replaced by Special Delegation Presidents by the HAT.

In Manakara, supporters of the ousted mayor demonstrated on the local Place of Democracy. The local authorities consequently arrested five of them. Five more bricks to the growing of Malagasy political prisoners which has so far been reaching some hundreds of names since the year 2009