PRELIMINARY TITLE: OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND RIGHTS
Inalienable rights Article 1
The Gabonese Republic recognizes and guarantees the inalienable and imprescriptible human rights, which are necessarily tied to the public powers:
4°. The rights to defense, in the case of a trial, are guaranteed to all. Preventative detention must not exceed the time period provisioned by the law;

PRELIMINARY TITLE: OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES AND RIGHTS
Inalienable rights Article 1
The Gabonese Republic recognizes and guarantees the inalienable and imprescriptible human rights, which are necessarily tied to the public powers:
23°. No one may be arbitrarily detained; if deemed appropriate by the
necessities of security and procedure, no one may be kept in police custody
or temporary imprisonment if he or she presents sufficient guarantees of
legal representation.