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TITLE II: OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF
THE HUMAN PERSON
• Prohibition of capital punishment
• General guarantee of equality
Article 10
The human person is sacred. The State has the obligation to respect it and to protect
it. All human beings are equal before the law.
No one may be condemned to the penalty of death.
• Right to life
Every individual has the right to life, to the liberty, to the security and to the integrity
of his person.
• Protection from ex post facto laws
• Protection from unjustified restraint
• Principle of no punishment without law
No one may be prosecuted, arrested, inculpated or condemned except by virtue of a
law promulgated prior to the acts of which he is accused.
• Presumption of innocence in trials
All accused persons are presumed innocent until their culpability has been
established by the competent jurisdiction.
• Right to counsel
The right to a defense, and including that of assistance by the attorney of one's own
choice, is guaranteed at all the stages of the procedure.
Any person made the object of a measure deprivative of his liberty has the right to be
examined by a doctor of his choice.
No one may be detained in a penal establishment except on an order delivered by a
magistrate of the judicial order.
• Freedom of religion
• Freedom of opinion/thought/conscience
Article 11
Every person has the right to the freedom of thought, of conscience, of religion, of
worship and of opinion within respect for the order established by the law and the
regulations.
Article 12
• Protection from expropriation
• Right to own property
The right to property is guaranteed by this Constitution. It may not be infringed
except in the case of public necessity legally established, under reserve of a just and
prior indemnity.
• Inalienable rights
• Right to privacy
The domicile is inviolable. It may only be subjected to intrusions or searches in the
forms and conditions specified by the law. The measures infringing the inviolability
of the domicile or circumventing it may only be taken to respond to a collective
danger or to protect persons in peril of death.
• Inalienable rights
• Right to privacy
Article 13
The secrecy of correspondence and of all other means of communication is
inviolable. Restriction of this inviolability may only be ordered in application of the
law.
Article 14
• Freedom of movement
Djibouti 1992 (rev. 2010)
All the citizens of the Republic have the right to move themselves and to establish
themselves freely on the entire extent of the Republic. This right may only be limited
by the law.
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