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Article 24
• Right to privacy
The state protects the right to privacy and the inviolability of the home, and the
confidentiality of correspondence, communications, and personal information.
• Freedom of movement
Every citizen has the right to choose their place of residence, to free movement
within the country, and the right to leave the country.
• Conditions for revoking citizenship
• Extradition procedure
Article 25
No citizen shall be deprived of their nationality, exiled, extradited or prevented from
returning to their country.
• Protection of stateless persons
Article 26
The right to political asylum shall be guaranteed as prescribed by law. It is prohibited
to surrender persons who have been granted political asylum.
• Right to fair trial
• Presumption of innocence in trials
Article 27
A defendant shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty in a fair trial in which
he/she is granted all guarantees necessary for his/her defence throughout all the
phases of prosecution and trial.
• Protection from ex post facto laws
• Principle of no punishment without law
Article 28
Punishments are individual and are not to be imposed unless by virtue of a legal
provision issued prior to the occurrence of the punishable act, except in the case of a
provision more favourable to the defendant.
Article 29
• Protection from unjustified restraint
No person may be arrested or detained unless apprehended during the commission
of a crime or on the basis of a judicial order.
• Right to counsel
The detained person must be immediately informed of their rights and the charges
under which they are being held. The detainee has the right to be represented by a
lawyer. The periods of arrest and detention are to be defined by law.
Article 30
• Human dignity
Every prisoner shall have the right to humane treatment that preserves their dignity.
In carrying out a punishment involving the deprivation of liberty, the state shall take
into account the interests of the family and shall seek the rehabilitation and
re-integration of the prisoner into society.
• Freedom of expression
• Freedom of opinion/thought/conscience
• Freedom of press
Article 31
Freedom of opinion, thought, expression, information and publication shall be
guaranteed.
These freedoms shall not be subject to prior censorship.
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