Committee clears bill to expand preventive detentionBy Fion Khan / Staff writer, with CNALawmakers today passed a preliminary review of partial amendments that would expand the scope of offenses subject to preventive detention. The Legislative Yuan’s Judiciary and Organic Laws Committee today discussed preventive detention amendments proposed by Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Chen Pei-yu (陳培瑜), Chinese Nationalist Party Legislator Wu Tsung-hsien (吳宗憲) and the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) caucus. It is therefore necessary to expand the scope of offenses subject to preventive detention to protect potential victims and ensure smooth investigations, Wu’s amendments say. During the committee meeting, the Judicial Yuan expressed support for the amendments and proposed an integrated draft incorporating the legislators' versions. After discussion and the adoption of motions of further revisions proposed by attending legislators, the committee approved the amendments, which do not require cross-party caucus negotiations.
