constituteproject.org PDF generated: 18 Apr 2016, 15:28 Article 2 • Right to life • Prohibition of cruel treatment • Prohibition of slavery • Prohibition of torture • Protection from unjustified restraint The protection of life, security, and physical integrity are guaranteed. Slavery, slavery-like practices, inhuman and cruel, degrading and humiliating treatments, physical or moral torture, services and mistreatments inflicted on children and all forms of the degradation of Man[,] are forbidden and punished by the law. Article 3 No one may be deprived of his liberty if he is not prosecuted for acts specified and punishable by the law. • Power to deport citizens No one may only be arrested, detained, deported or exiled by virtue of the law. • Right to fair trial Article 4 All Burkinabe and all persons living in Burkina Faso benefit from an equal protection of the law. All have the right to have their case heard by an independent and impartial jurisdiction. • Presumption of innocence in trials Any accused is presumed innocent until his guilt has been established. • Right to counsel The right to a defense, including that of freely choosing one's defender is guaranteed before all the jurisdictions. • Protection from ex post facto laws • Principle of no punishment without law Article 5 Anything which is not forbidden by the law may not be hindered and no one can be constrained to do that which [the law] does not order. The penal law does not have retroactive effect. One may only be judged and punished by virtue of a law promulgated and published prior to the punishable act. Punishment is personal and individual. • Inalienable rights • Right to privacy Article 6 The residence, the domicile, private and family life, [and] the secrecy of correspondence of every person, are inviolable. It can only be infringed according to the forms and in the cases specified by the law. • Freedom of assembly • Freedom of religion Article 7 The freedom of belief, of non-belief, of conscience, of religious opinion, [of] philosophy, of exercise of belief, the freedom of assembly, the free practice of custom as well as the freedom of procession and of demonstration, are guaranteed by this Constitution, under reserve of respect for the law, for public order, for good morals and for the human person. • Freedom of expression • Right to information • Freedom of opinion/thought/conscience • Freedom of press Article 8 The freedoms of opinion, of the press and the right to information are guaranteed. Every person has the right to express and to disseminate his opinions within the order of the laws and regulations in force. Burkina Faso 1991 (rev. 2012) Page 4