Section 20: Guarantee of freedoms and rights

1) No person shall be deprived of personal liberty except in accordance with law.

2) Every citizen shall, subject to law, have the following freedoms and rights:

(a) To express one’s opinion and expression,

(b) To assemble, hold an assembly, or conference peacefully without arms,

(c) To form a union and an association,

(d) To move and reside in any part of Nepal,

(e) To practice any profession, employment, industry, business,

(f) To obtain education of his or her choice or in his or her mother tongue,

(g) To earn, use, transfer property, and carry out any other transaction of property,

(h) To profess and practice his or her religion practiced from time immemorial, subject to the compliance with public morality and traditions,

(i) To preserve and promote the language, script, or culture of his or her community,

(j) To operate a religious place and religious trust, by maintaining the independent existence of his or her religious community,

(k) To protect or maintain the privacy of his or her body, residence, property, document, correspondence, or information.