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.
TITLE I: RIGHTS, FREEDOMS AND DUTIES
CHAPTER ONE: RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS
Article 7
No one may be prosecuted, arrested, detained or charged, except by virtue of a law promulgated prior to the facts alleged against them.
A person convicted by the Court may be punished only in accordance with this Statute.