Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Article
5 :
« No one shall be subjected to torture or
to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. »
UN Declaration on the Protection of All Persons
Subjected to any Form of
Detention or Imprisonment Against Torture
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or
Degrading Treatment or Punishment - Article
1 :
« For the purpose of this Declaration, torture means any act by wich severe pain or suffering, wether physical or mental, is intentionelly inflicted by or at the instigation of a public official on a person for such purpose as obtaining from him or a third person information or confession, punishing him for an act he has commited or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating him or other
person. »
UN Standard Minimun Rules for the Treatment
of Prisoners - Article 22(2) :
« Sick prisoners who require specialist
treatment shall be transfered to specialized institutions or to civil hospitals.
»
UN Principles for the Protection of Persons
with Mental Illness and for the
Improvement of Mental Health Care :
Principle 1 :
1. « All persons have the right to the best
available mental health care, which shall be part of the health and social
care system. »
2. « All persons with a mental illness,
or who are being treated as such persons, shall be treated with humanity
and respect for the inherent dignity of the human person. »
3. « All persons with a mental illness,
or who are being treated as such persons, have the right to protection
from economic, sexual and other forms of exploitation, physical or other
abuse and degrading treatment. »
Principle 20 :
2. « All persons [serving sentences of imprisonment
for criminal offences, (...) and who are determined to have a mental illness]
should receive the best available mental health care as provided in principle
1 above. »
UN Principles of Medical Ethics (relevant to
the role of health personnel,
particularly physicians, in the protection
of prisoners and detainees
against torture and other cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or
punishment) - Principle 1 :
« Health personnel, particularly physicians,
charged with the
medical care of prisoners and detainees, have
a duty to provide them with
protection of their physical and mental health
and treatment of disease of
the same quality and standard as is afforded
to those who are not in prison
or detained. »

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