Last Change:

05/17/2025

Constitution of Montenegro, with amendments to 2013

Year: 2007

Type: Domestic law

Rights Category: Asylum, Education, Freedom of movement, Health, Housing, land & property, Liberty & security of person, Nationality & facilitated naturalization, Social protection, Work & Workplace rights, Family life, Documentation

Link to external source: https://www.refworld.org/legal/legislation/natlegbod/2007/en/104957?prevDestination=search&prevPath=/search?keywords=constitution&order=desc&sm_country_name%5B%5D=Montenegro&sort=score&ss_collection_name%5B%5D=Legal+Instruments&result=result-104957-en
Description

The Constitution of Montenegro establishes the country as an independent and sovereign state, with the republican form of government, with a civil, democratic, ecological and a state of social justice, based on the rule of law. The Constitution in Article 44 provides that "A foreign national reasonably fearing from persecution on the grounds of his/her race, language, religion or association with a nation or a group or due to own political beliefs may request asylum in Montenegro".

Selected provisions
Constitution of Montenegro, with amendments to 2013 - Generic

Constitution of Montenegro, with amendments to 2013 - Generic

Right to Asylum

A foreign national reasonably fearing from persecution on the grounds of his/her race, language, religion or association with a nation or a group or due to own political beliefs may request asylum in Montenegro.

A foreign national shall not be expelled from Montenegro to where due to his race, religion, language or association with a nation he/she is threatened with death sentence, torture, inhuman degradation, persecution or serious violation of rights guaranteed by this Constitution.

A foreign national may be expelled from Montenegro solely on the basis of a court decision and in a procedure provided for by the law