THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN PRISON: RESULTS OF A NATIONWIDE SURVEY AND REPORT 2.5 The Commission observes that as a result of the limited public education on human rights and the rights and freedoms as contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the various other human rights treaties, many myths and misunderstandings have sprung up about the concept of human rights, including the values it contains. 2.6 Regardless, in Malaysia, human rights have been incorporated in Part II the Federal Constitution in Articles 5 to 13: (i) Liberty of the person (Article 5) (ii) Prohibition against slavery and forced labour (Article 6) (iii) Protection against retrospective criminal laws and repeated trials (Article 7) (iv) Equality (Article 8) (v) Prohibition of banishment and freedom of movement (Article 9) (vi) Freedom of speech, assembly and association (Article10) (vii) Freedom of religion (Article 11) (viii) Rights in respect of education (Article 12) (ix) Rights to property (Article 13) 2.7 Given that all prisoners shall retain the human rights and fundamental freedoms set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, some of those that are particularly relevant to prisoners include the right: • • • • • • • • • • • • to life and integrity of the person to be treated with humanity and respect for their dignity to be free from torture or other ill-treatment to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health to due process of law to freedom from discrimination of any kind to freedom from slavery to freedom of conscience and of thought to freedom of religion to respect for family life to self-development to education 12