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Article 13
1.
• Human dignity
• Right to life
• Freedom of expression
• Freedom of opinion/thought/conscience
• General guarantee of equality
• Equality regardless of gender
• Freedom of movement
• Right to protect one's reputation
• Freedom of religion
• Right to privacy
• Right of petition
• Right to amparo
• Protection from unjustified restraint
• Right to counsel
• Right to fair trial
• Freedom of assembly
• Freedom of association
• Right to choose occupation
• Protection from unjustified restraint
• Presumption of innocence in trials
• Protection from self-incrimination
Equatorial Guinea 1991 (rev. 2012)
Every citizen enjoys the following rights and freedoms.
a. The respect of his person, life, personal integrity, its dignity and his full
material and moral development. The death penalty can only be
imposed by a crime established by the law.
b. To the freedom of expression, thinking, ideas and opinions.
c. To equality before the law. The woman, irrespective of her civil status,
shall have the same rights and opportunities as men in all aspects of
public, private and familiar life, in civil, political, economic, social and
cultural life.
d. To free circulation and residence;
e. To honor and a good reputation;
f. To freedom of a religion and worship;
g. To the inviolability of the domicile and the privacy of all
communications;
h. To submit claims and petitions to the authorities;
i.
To the right of habeas corpus and amparo.
j.
To the right of defense before tribunals and to an adversarial process
within the framework of the law.
k. To freedom of association, assembly and manifestation.
l.
To freedom of working.
m. To not being deprived of their freedom save by virtue of a judicial
order, except in those cases provided by the Law and in flagrant
crimes.
n. To be informed of the cause and reasons of their detention.
o. To be presumed innocent until culpability has not been demonstrated.
p. To not testify in trial against oneself, or relatives within a fourth
degree of consanguinity or second degree of affinity, or to be
compelled to declare under oath against oneself in matters that may
give rise to criminal responsibility.
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