A Kenyan court ruled on Tuesday (July 31st) that police could hold a Venezuelan diplomat in connection to the death of his country's acting ambassador for six more days while investigations continue, AFP reported.
Dwight Sagaray, first secretary at the Venezuelan embassy in Kenya, is being held as a suspect in connection to the strangling of Olga Fonseca Giminez, Venezuela's acting ambassador to Kenya. Giminez was found dead at her home in Nairobi on Friday.
Normally, police can only hold a suspect for 24 hours without charges.
"The court rules that the respondent is to be detained at Gigiri police station [in Nairobi] for a period of six days," said Judge Florence Muchemi, giving police fewer than the 14 days of detention they had requested. "The 14-day period will be unnecessarily too long, and the security of the defendant may be at risk," Muchemi said.
Sagaray's diplomatic immunity was waived before his arrest on Saturday, Kenyan officials have said.