See Implementation; ICRC; Detainees; Internees;

 OUTLINE

Chapter 17, II. 1. a) visits to detained persons – interviews without witnesses

Chapter 17, II. 2. a) visits (with interviews without witnesses) to detainees held in connection with the situation

 DOCUMENTS

ICRC, Tracing Service (Para. 4)

Agreement Between the ICRC and the ICTY Concerning Persons Awaiting Trials Before the Tribunal

ICRC, Visits to Detainees: Interviews Without Witnesses (Part B.)

 CASES

Israel, Cheikh Obeid et al. v. Ministry of Security

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Coard v. United States (Paras. 30-32) 

Ethiopia/Somalia, Prisoners of War of the Ogaden Conflict

Eritrea/Ethiopia, Partial Award on POWs (Part A., Paras. 28, 29, 45, 55-62, 81 and 84; Part B., Paras. 100, 150-163)

ICRC, Iran/Iraq, Memoranda

Iran/Iraq, 70,000 Prisoners of War Repatriated

United States, The Schlesinger Report

Case Study, Armed Conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (Paras. 1, 12 and 21)

Afghanistan/Canada, Agreements on the Transfer of Detainees (Part A., Paras. 4, 7, 10; Part B., para. 10)

United States, Status and Treatment of Detainees Held in Guantanamo Naval Base (Part II.)

 BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES

Suggested readings:

BUGNION François, The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Protection of War Victims, Geneva/Oxford, ICRC/Macmillan, 2003, 1161 pp. L’action du CICR en faveur des prisonniers, Geneva, ICRC, May 1997, 35 pp. STIBBE Matthew, “The Internment of Civilians by Belligerent States during the First World War and the Response of the International Committee of the Red Cross”, in Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 41, No. 1, 2006, pp. 5-19.