Protocol No. 4
ARTICLE 2
Freedom of movement
to the Convention
for the Protection of Human Rights
and Fundamental Freedoms
securing certain rights and freedoms
other than those already included
in the Convention
and in the First Protocol thereto
Strasbourg, 16.IX.1963
The Governments
of Europe,
signatory hereto,
being members of the Council
Being resolved to take steps to ensure the collective enforcement of
certain rights and freedoms other than those already included in
Section I of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and
Fundamental Freedoms signed at Rome on 4th November 1950
(hereinafter referred to as the “Convention”) and in Articles 1
to 3 of the First Protocol to the Convention, signed at Paris
on 20th March 1952,
Have agreed as follows:
2. Everyone shall be free to leave any country, including his
own.
3. No restrictions shall be placed on the exercise of these rights
other than such as are in accordance with law and are necessary
in a democratic society in the interests of national security or public
safety, for the maintenance of ordre public, for the prevention of
crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection
of the rights and freedoms of others.
4. The rights set forth in paragraph 1 may also be subject, in
particular areas, to restrictions imposed in accordance with law
and justified by the public interest in a democratic society.
ARTICLE 3
Prohibition of expulsion of nationals
1. No one shall be expelled, by means either of an individual
or of a collective measure, from the territory of the State of which
he is a national.
2. No one shall be deprived of the right to enter the territory of
the State of which he is a national.
ARTICLE 1
ARTICLE 4
Prohibition of imprisonment for debt
Prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens
No one shall be deprived of his liberty merely on the ground of
inability to fulfil a contractual obligation.
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1. Everyone lawfully within the territory of a State shall, within
that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and freedom to
choose his residence.
Collective expulsion of aliens is prohibited.
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