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• Regulation of evidence collection
• Right to privacy
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Article 29
The domicile is inviolable. Entry or searches may only be effected in the forms and
the conditions specified by the law.
• Freedom of movement
Article 30
All persons who are on the national territory have the right to circulate freely in it, to
establish their residence in it, to leave it and to return to it, under the conditions
established by the law.
No Congolese may be expelled from the territory of the Republic, or forced into
exile, or forced to live outside his habitual residence.
• Right to privacy
• Telecommunications
Article 31
All persons have the right to the respect of their private life and to the secrecy of
their correspondence, of telecommunications and of any other form of
communication. This right may only be infringed in the cases specified by the law.
Article 32
All foreigners who find themselves legally on the national territory enjoy the
protection granted to persons and to their assets under the conditions determined
by the treaties and the laws.
They are required to conform to the laws and regulations of the Republic.
• Protection of stateless persons
Article 33
The right to asylum is recognized.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo grants, under reserve of national security,
asylum on its territory to foreign nationals, prosecuted or persecuted, notably, for
their opinion, their belief, their racial, tribal, ethnic, linguistic affiliation or for their
action in favor of democracy and for the defense of the Rights of Man and of Peoples,
in accordance with the laws and regulations in force.
It is forbidden that any person regularly in enjoyment of the rights of asylum
undertake any subversive activity against their country of origin or against any other
country, from the territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Refugees may neither be remitted to the authority of the State where they are
prosecuted nor sent back to the territory of the latter.
In no case may a person be turned over to the territory of a State in which they risk
torture, [or] cruel, degrading or inhuman punishment or treatment.
The law establishes the modalities of the exercise of this right.
Chapter 2: Of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Right to own property
Article 34
Private property is sacred.
The State guarantees the right to individual or collective property, acquired in
conformity to the law or to custom.
Congo (Democratic Republic of the) 2005 (rev. 2011)
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