CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF COTE D’IVOIRE - Adopted on 24 July 2000

TITLE I: FREEDOMS, RIGHTS, AND DUTIES

CHAPTER 1: Freedoms and Rights

Article 21

No one may be prosecuted, arrested, detained, held in police custody or charged, except by virtue of a law previously promulgated concerning the acts of which he or she is accused.

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PART IVA - FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS

Construction of law

65 (1) Subject to subclause (2) of this Article and to subclause (2) of Article 64 hereof, every enactment shall be so construed and applied as not to abrogate, abridge, or infringe or to authorise the abrogation, abridgement, or infringement of any of the rights or freedoms recognised and declared by subclause (1) of Article 64 hereof, and in particular no enactment shall be construed or applied so as to-

(a) Authorise or effect the arbitrary detention, imprisonment, or exile of any person ; or

Article 55
Rights of persons during an investigation
1. In respect of an investigation under this Statute, a person:
(d) Shall not be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention, and shall not be deprived of his or her liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedures as are established in this Statute