12. Every person has the right to personal liberty and security. No
person shall be subject to arbitrary arrest, search, detention,
abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty.
13. No person shall be held in servitude or slavery in any of its
forms, or be subject to human smuggling or trafficking in
persons, including for the purpose of trafficking in human
organs.
14. No person shall be subject to torture or to cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment.
15. Every person has the right to freedom of movement and
residence within the borders of each State. Every person has
the right to leave any country including his or her own, and to
return to his or her country.
16. Every person has the right to seek and receive asylum in another
State in accordance with the laws of such State and applicable
international agreements.
17. Every person has the right to own, use, dispose of and give
that person’s lawfully acquired possessions alone or in
association with others. No person shall be arbitrarily deprived
of such property.
18. Every person has the right to a nationality as prescribed by law.
No person shall be arbitrarily deprived of such nationality nor
denied the right to change that nationality.
19. The family as the natural and fundamental unit of society is
entitled to protection by society and each ASEAN Member
State. Men and women of full age have the right to marry on
the basis of their free and full consent, to found a family and to
dissolve a marriage, as prescribed by law.
20. (1) Every person charged with a criminal offence shall be
presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in
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