The amendments of the Law n° 47/2008 of 09 /09/2008 on prevention and penalising the crime of money laundering and financing terrorism, that is under review, state that suspects of terrorism should face 15-day pre-trial detention up from five for other cases.
Assessing the law amendments on Wednesday, the Vice-chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Athanasie Nyiragwaneza criticized the amendments saying that 15 days are so many.
“On pre-trial detention, five days were enough. These days were set following claims of people who were being detained and spending days without case files and investigations used to take longer. And now why 15 days for terror suspects and five days for suspects on other crimes?” questioned MP Nyiragwaneza.
The State Minister in charge of Constitution and other Laws at the Ministry of Justice, Evode Uwizeyimana said that terror cases should be handled particularly because terrorists use particular means.
“First of all, no person can commit terrorism alone. We can’t convince justice systems with testimonies gathered in five days; terrorism is a big connection of many people,” he said.
He said that terrorists use many tricks which require investigators to use many efforts and particular means to detect the suspects.
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