No one shall have the right to limit human rights and freedoms, or restrict such rights and freedoms, except in cases provided for by the Constitution and laws. The citation in the Constitution and laws of certain human and civil rights and freedoms shall not be used to deny or diminish other rights and freedoms thereof. Article 27. Human and civil rights and freedoms shall be directly applicable. They shall determine the meaning, content and application of laws, the activities of the legislative and executive authorities and local self-government, and shall be provided with justice. Article 28. Turkmenistan shall guarantee the equality of human and civil rights and freedoms and the equality of man and citizen before the law and the court regardless of nationality, skin colour, sex, origin, property and official status, place of residence, language, attitude to religion, political beliefs, or other circumstances. Article 29. A man and a woman in Turkmenistan shall have equal rights and freedoms as well as equal opportunities for their realization. Violation of equality based on sex shall entail liability established by law. Article 30. The exercise of rights and freedoms must not violate the rights and freedoms of others, as well as moral norms, the requirements of the law, public order, cause damage to national security. Article 31. Everyone shall have the right to the protection of honour and dignity. Nothing can be the basis for the humiliation of the dignity of the individual. Article 32. Everyone shall have the right to life and the freedom to exercise it. No one can be deprived of the right to life. The right of every person to a free life shall be protected by the state based on the law. The death penalty shall be abolished in Turkmenistan. Article 33. A person cannot be convicted or punished except in strict accordance with the law. No one may be subjected to torture, the use of violence, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, as well as be subjected to medical, scientific or other experiments without his consent. A person can be arrested only if there are grounds precisely specified in the law by a court order or with the approval of a prosecutor. In cases that are urgent and precisely specified in the law, the authorized state bodies shall have the right to temporarily detain a person.