Madagascan authorities arrested four members of the Gen Z activist movement on 12 April in Antananarivo (Madagascar's capital), detaining them at the Criminal Brigade on charges including threatening state security, criminal association, and disturbing public order — offences carrying up to five years in prison. The arrests, which lawyers say were carried out by masked, hooded men in tinted-window vehicles in what they describe as procedurally irregular circumstances, followed a protest of several dozen people calling against corrupt practices and for the dissolution of the National Assembly. By Tuesday evening, 69 civil society organisations — including the ROHY collective and Transparency International Initiative Madagascar — had condemned the detentions as arbitrary and warned of "a worrying rollback of commitments to civil and political rights," while the Madagascan presidency insisted the matter rested solely with the judiciary.