A person convicted of a terrorist act that has resulted in the death of another person would be sentenced to death under proposed anti-terrorism legislation.
The Anti-Terrorism and Terrorist Related Activities Bill 2015 was laid in the National Assembly on Thursday. Government had initially wanted to suspend parliamentary rules to allow it to be debated and passed on the same day but backed down following an outcry.
The bill seeks to criminalise terrorism in its various forms and to provide for the detection, prevention, prosecution and punishment of