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At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie warned that threats against the Prime Min­is­ter, in­clud­ing those post­ed on­line, will be treat­ed se­ri­ous­ly un­der the law as Par­lia­ment vot­ed on Fri­day to ex­tend the State of Emer­gency for an­oth­er three months with­out Op­po­si­tion sup­port.

“In some ter­ri­to­ries, you go to jail for that. In oth­er ter­ri­to­ries, you are shot for that,” the AG told the Low­er House, stand­ing by the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to de­tain in­di­vid­u­als for so­cial me­dia posts dur­ing the pre­vi­ous SoE.

Je­re­mie made the re­marks while wind­ing up the de­bate on the ex­ten­sion of the emer­gency pow­ers reg­u­la­tions, de­fend­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s han­dling of threats against Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar and its broad­er crime-fight­ing strat­e­gy.