Article 12
No one shall be arrested or detained unless by order of the authority declared competent by law and in the cases and the manner described therein.
Article 13
1. Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
2. No person shall against his will be denied the judge assigned to him as a consequence of the law.
Article 14
1. Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he enjoys all the guarantees prescribed necessary for his defence.
2. No one shall be prosecuted or sentenced to penalty unless by virtue of a law applicable to him at the time the penal offence was committed.
3. In the event of an alteration of the law referred to in the preceding paragraph, the provision most favourable to the accused shall be applied.
Article 15
1. No transgression or crime shall be made punishable by total forfeiture of the property of the offender.
2. No penalty may cause the civic death or the loss of all civic rights.
Article 16
1. Everyone’s home is inviolable.
2. To enter a compound of a dwelling against the occupant’s will shall only be permitted in those cases provided for in a law applicable to him.
Article 17
The freedom and secrey of correspondence are inviolable, except by order of a judge or other authority declared competent by law, for those cases defined by that law.
Article 18
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief and freedom either alone or in community with others and in public or private to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, observance of the commandments and prescriptions and in educating children in the faith or belief of their parents.
Article 19
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and of expression.
Article 20
The right of the residents to freedom of peaceful assembly and association is recognized and as far as necessary guaranteed by law.
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