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PART III
BASIC RIGHTS AND DUTIES
The Right to Equality
13. Equality before the law
(6) To ensure equality before the law, the state authority shall make procedures which are appropriate or which take into account the following principles, namely :
(d) for the purposes of preserving the right or equality of human beings, human dignity shall be protected in all activities pertaining to criminal investigations and process, and in any other matters for which a person is restrained, or in the execution of a sentence ;
(e) no person shall be subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment.
Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
1. In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:
(b) Shall not be subjected to any form of coercion, duress or threat, to torture or to any other form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment