... After an unjust arrest, trial, and imprisonment, SVS, with support from IndustriALL Global Union and the ITUC, took the matter of the imprisonment of Zotiakobanjinina Fanja Marcel Sento Chang, a Malagasy trade union representative, to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Committee of Experts on the Application of International Standards and Recommendations (CAS). The CAS in its conclusions at the International Labour Conference (5-16 June 2023) concurred with “deep concern” that Sento’s imprisonment violated ILO Convention 87...

...For justice to prevail, IndustriALL supports calls by SVS for Sento’s conviction to be annulled through the ongoing appeal process within the court system, that E-Toile SA and Alsico reinstate and pay him the wages and benefits that he should have earned during the period of wrongful imprisonment, and that he be compensated for the post-traumatic stress disorder caused by the ordeal...