Rwanda’s amended drug offence expressly covered being caught with narcotics or psychotropic substances, alongside consuming them, from 29 November 2019. The clause retained one to two years in prison or community service, an alternative already written into the 2018 law. Separate production and supply offences kept their much heavier tariffs, including a statutory life sentence for the highest category.[1][2][3]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Rwanda here.
References
- Rwanda Ministry of Justice — criminal-law amendment 2019Official Gazette Special of 29 November 2019, Article 11 replacing Article 263 at pp. 151–153; Article 14 commencement; signed 8 Novemberarchived
- Rwanda Official Gazette — offences and penalties law 2018Printed pp. 226–228, Article 263; p. 275, Article 335 commencement; statutory category names differ across translationsarchived
- Rwanda Ministry of Health — narcotics categorisation order 2019Official Gazette 10 of 11 March 2019, Articles 2–5, 7–9 and Annex I, printed p. 50; signed 4 March, commencement on publicationarchived
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