15 Jul 2014, 04:01 pm
Chapter IV. Rights of the People
Article 17. Basic human rights
a) Every person has the right to life, liberty, and personal security, and shall only be deprived of these rights in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.
b) Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, freedom of expression through a free press and other means of communication, and to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
c) The State shall secure the rights set out in this Article to everyone within its jurisdiction, subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be justified in a free and democratic society.
Article 18. Political rights
a) Every citizen has the right to participate in his own governance by electing representatives, organizing in political parties and interest groups, and accessing public government information.
b) The law may provide for deprivation of the ability to hold public offices in sentencing upon conviction for treason, espionage, fraud, corruption, and other grave crimes against the People and public order.
Article 19. Legal rights
a) Everyone has the right to be secure from arbitrary searches and seizures of property.
b) No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
c) The use of capital punishment for any offence in times of peace or of war is abolished.
Article 20. Procedural rights
a) No person shall be arrested or detained without being informed of a reasonable cause, and no person shall be detained for more than two days without being charged with an offence against the law.
b) Upon arrest or detention, everyone has the right to receive legal counsel, and to be informed of that right.
c) Any person charged with an offence has the right to be informed of the detailed charges against him, to a trial within a reasonable period of time, and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty through a fair trial in accordance with the law.
d) No person shall be compelled to confess an offence or otherwise give testimony against himself.
e) No person shall be tried for an offence of which he has already been acquitted or convicted in accordance with the law, except in the event of newly-discovered facts, or where there was a fundamental defect in the previous proceedings.
f) No person shall be found guilty of any act or omission which did not, at the time of that act or omission, constitute an offence under the law.
Article 21. Mobility and nationality rights
a) Every citizen has the right to enter, remain in, and leave the Republic, or to take up residence in any constituent country, within such reasonable limitations and restrictions as may be provided by law.
b) No citizen shall lose or be deprived of his Mercurian nationality and citizenship, except by his own request, or by such other procedures as the law may provide.
Article 22. Equality before the law
Everyone is equal before the law, and shall have the equal right to enjoy the benefit and protection of the law without discrimination based on gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.
Article 17. Basic human rights
a) Every person has the right to life, liberty, and personal security, and shall only be deprived of these rights in the execution of a sentence of a court following his conviction of a crime for which this penalty is provided by law.
b) Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion, freedom of expression through a free press and other means of communication, and to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
c) The State shall secure the rights set out in this Article to everyone within its jurisdiction, subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be justified in a free and democratic society.
Article 18. Political rights
a) Every citizen has the right to participate in his own governance by electing representatives, organizing in political parties and interest groups, and accessing public government information.
b) The law may provide for deprivation of the ability to hold public offices in sentencing upon conviction for treason, espionage, fraud, corruption, and other grave crimes against the People and public order.
Article 19. Legal rights
a) Everyone has the right to be secure from arbitrary searches and seizures of property.
b) No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
c) The use of capital punishment for any offence in times of peace or of war is abolished.
Article 20. Procedural rights
a) No person shall be arrested or detained without being informed of a reasonable cause, and no person shall be detained for more than two days without being charged with an offence against the law.
b) Upon arrest or detention, everyone has the right to receive legal counsel, and to be informed of that right.
c) Any person charged with an offence has the right to be informed of the detailed charges against him, to a trial within a reasonable period of time, and to be presumed innocent until proven guilty through a fair trial in accordance with the law.
d) No person shall be compelled to confess an offence or otherwise give testimony against himself.
e) No person shall be tried for an offence of which he has already been acquitted or convicted in accordance with the law, except in the event of newly-discovered facts, or where there was a fundamental defect in the previous proceedings.
f) No person shall be found guilty of any act or omission which did not, at the time of that act or omission, constitute an offence under the law.
Article 21. Mobility and nationality rights
a) Every citizen has the right to enter, remain in, and leave the Republic, or to take up residence in any constituent country, within such reasonable limitations and restrictions as may be provided by law.
b) No citizen shall lose or be deprived of his Mercurian nationality and citizenship, except by his own request, or by such other procedures as the law may provide.
Article 22. Equality before the law
Everyone is equal before the law, and shall have the equal right to enjoy the benefit and protection of the law without discrimination based on gender, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability.