The amendments of the Law n\u00b0 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn 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?\u201d questioned MP Nyiragwaneza.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, no person can commit terrorism alone. We can\u2019t convince justice systems with testimonies gathered in five days; terrorism is a big connection of many people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said that terrorists use many tricks which require investigators to use many efforts and particular means to detect the suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The draft law on prevention and penalising terrorism in Rwanda seeks to raise pre-trial detention days on terror suspects from five to 15 days as a way to give institutions in charge ample time for profound investigations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36695"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36695"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}