No one shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
1. No Contracting State shall expel or return (“refouler”) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of his race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
2. The benefit of the present provision may not, however, be claimed by a refugee whom there are reasonable grounds for regarding as a danger to the security of the country in which he is, or who, having been convicted by a final judgment of a particularly serious crime, constitutes a danger to the community of that country.
Each Contracting State shall accord to refugees lawfully in its territory the right to choose their place of residence and to move freely within its territory, subject to any regulations applicable to aliens generally in the same circumstances.
The Refugee Convention, 1951 : http://www.unhcr.org/4ca34be29.pdf
1. Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
2. This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
Source : UDHR
1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights : http://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights : http://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf