Inviolability of the Person

one of the constitutional personal rights and freedoms of citizens. In proclaiming the inviolability of the person, the constitutions of socialist countries specify that no one may be subjected to arrest except in the manner and in cases established by law. Under the Constitution of the USSR (art. 127), a citizen may not be subjected to arrest without a court order or the sanction of a procurator. The inviolability of the person is also proclaimed in the constitutions of the bourgeois states, but in many of these countries it is no protection against arbitrary actions.