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See Judicial guarantees;

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Chapter 6, III. g) rules on penal and disciplinary proceedings

Chapter 8, IV. 6. b) indicted or convicted persons

 LEGAL SOURCES

POWs

    GCIII, 82-88 and 99-108

    CIHL, 100-102

Protected persons

    CIHL, 100-102

judicial guarantees

    GCIV, 71-75

detention in the occupied territory

    GCIV, 76

humane treatment

    GCIV, 76

handing over to local authorities at the end of occupation

    GCIV, 77

 DOCUMENTS

United States, Closure of Guantanamo Detention Facilities

 CASES

  • United States, Trial of Lieutenant General Harukei Isayama and Others
  • United States, The Schlesinger Report
  • Iraq, Occupation and Peacebuilding [Part B. 1ter]
  • Iraq, The Trial of Saddam Hussein
  • Malaysia, Osman v. Prosecutor
  • United States, United States v. Noriega [Part A. III.]
  • South Africa, S. v. Petane
  • ICRC, Iran/Iraq, Memoranda
  • United States, President’s Military Order
  • United States, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
  • United States, Military Commissions
  • United States, Habeas Corpus for Guantanamo Detainees
  • Sweden/Syria, Can Armed Groups Issue Judgments?
  • UN/Colombia, Human Rights Committee Clarifications and Concluding Observations (2016) 
  • Colombia, Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Extrajudicial Executions in Casanare

 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

MEYER Michael A., “Liability of POWs for Offences Committed Prior to Capture – The Astiz Affair”, in ICLQ, Vol. 32, 1983

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