IHL treaties foresee detailed rights of communication for persons they protect: to inform their authorities and their families as to their fate and, for some of them, to communicate with their lawyers, the ICRC and/or the Protecting Powers.
Under Art. 5(2) GC IV, a civil internee in occupied territory suspected of engaging in activities hostile to the security of the State, may be deprived of his rights of communication.
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(in occupied territory) Rights of communication of protected persons regarded as forfeited when detained as spy or saboteur or suspected of hostile activity GCIV, 5/2
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