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Constitution of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh
(a) who for the time being is an enemy alien; or
(b) who is arrested or detained under any law providing for preventive detention.
(4) No law providing for preventive detention shall authorise the detention of a person for a period exceeding
six months unless an Advisory Board consisting of three persons, of whom two shall be persons who are, or
have been, or are qualified to be appointed as, Judges of the Supreme Court and the other shall be a
person who is a senior officer in the service of the Republic, has, after affording him an opportunity of being
heard in person, reported before the expiration of the said period of six months that there is, in its opinion,
sufficient cause for such detention.
(5) When any person is detained in pursuance of an order made under any law providing for preventive
detention, the authority making the order shall, as soon as may be, communicate to such person the
grounds on which the order has been made, and shall afford him the earliest opportunity of making a
representation against the order:
Provided that the authority making any such order may refuse to disclose facts which such authority
considers to be against the public interest to disclose.
(6) Parliament may by law prescribe the procedure to be followed by an Advisory Board in an inquiry under
clause (4).]
Prohibition of forced labour
34. (1) All forms of forced labour are prohibited and any contravention of this provision shall be an offence
punishable in accordance with law.
(2) Nothing in this article shall apply to compulsory labour–
(a) by persons undergoing lawful punishment for a criminal offence; or
(b) required by any law for public purposes.
35. (1) No person shall be convicted of any offence except for violation of a law in force at the time of the
commission of the act charged as an offence, nor be subjected to a penalty greater than, or different from,
that which might have been inflicted under the law in force at the time of the commission of the offence.
(2) No person shall be prosecuted and punished for the same offence more than once.
(3) Every person accused of a criminal offence shall have the right to a speedy and public trial by an
independent and impartial Court or tribunal established by law.
(4) No person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself.
(5) No person shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishment or treatment.
(6) Nothing in clause (3) or clause (5) shall affect the operation of any existing law which prescribes any
punishment or procedure for trial.
36. Subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the public interest, every citizen shall have the
right to move freely throughout Bangladesh, to reside and settle in any place therein and to leave and re
enter Bangladesh.
37. Every citizen shall have the right to assemble and to participate in public meetings and processions
peacefully and without arms, subject to any reasonable restrictions imposed by law in the interests of public
order or public health.
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Protection in respect of trial
and punishment
Freedom of movement
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of association
38. Every citizen shall have the right to form associations or unions, subject to any reasonable
restrictions imposed by law in the interests of morality or public order :
Provided that no person shall have the right to form, or be a member of the said association or union,
if
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