The definition of freedom  using national and international official documents

(Pavlikeni)

 

 

From Tarnovo Constitution adopted 16 April, 1879

 

Article 73 No one shall be punished without judgement by a law- court.

Article 77 Private Letters and telepraphs are seeret and inviolable.

Article 79 The press is free.

Article 82 The residents of the Bulgarian Kingdom have the right to assemble peacefully in order to discuss any problems without asking foraprevious permission.

 

 

From Bulgarian Constitution – Adopted on 12 July 1991

 

Article 4. (2) The Republic of Bulgaria shall guarantee the life, dignity, and rights of the individual and shall create conditions conductive to the free development of the individual and the civil society.

Article 6. (1) All persons are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

                (2) All citizens shall be equal before the law. There shall be no privileges or restrictions of riglits on the grounds of race, nationality, ethnic self – identity, sex, origen, religion, education, opinion, political, affiliation, personal or social status, or property status.

Article 13. (1) The practicing of any religion is free.

Article 28 Everyone shall have the riglit to life. Any attack upon a human life shall be punished as a most severe crime.

Article 29. (1) No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman,or degrading treatment, or to forcible assimilation.

                  (2) No one shall be subjected to medical, scientific, or other experimentation without his voluntary wiitten consent.

Article 30. (1) Everyone is entitled to personal freedom and inviolability.

                  (2) No one shall be detained or subjected to inspection, search of any other infringement of his personal inviolability except on the conditions and in a manner established by law.

Article 32. (1) The privacy of citizens is inviolable.

                  (2) No one shall be folloued, photographed, filmed, recorded, or subjected to any other similar activity without his knowledge or despite his express disapproval, except when such actions are permitted by law.

 

 

From The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (ІІІ) of 10 December 1948

 

Article 1 All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 3 Everyone has the right to life, liberty and secutity of person.

Article 4 No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 6 Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 10 Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 12 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 15 Everyone has the right to a nationality.

Article 28 Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in wich the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be frlly realized.

 

 

 

From The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776 ,USA, Thomas Jefferson

 

 “All men are created equal, they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the persuit of Happiness.”

 

 

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