See Release; Re-establishment; Return;
OUTLINE
LEGAL SOURCE
of POWs during hostilities:
when seriously sick or wounded
GCIII, 109-117, Annexes I & II
at the end of active hostilities
GCIII, 118-119
CIHL, 128/A
internment in a neutral country
GCIII, 110/2-3, 111, Annex I
of internees
GCIV, 132, 134
grave breach if unjustifiable delay
PI, 85/4b
of persons not otherwise protected
PI, 75/6
CASES
Cuba, Status of Captured “Guerrillas”
Case Study, Armed Conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (Para. 18)
Bangladesh/India/Pakistan, 1974 Agreement (Arts 3-11 and 13-15)
Ethiopia/Somalia, Prisoners of War of the Ogaden Conflict
Eritrea/Ethiopia, Partial Award on POWs (Part B., Paras. 143-163)
Iran/Iraq, 70,000 Prisoners of War Repatriated (Parts B., C. and D.)
Case Study, Armed Conflicts in the former Yugoslavia (Paras. 8 and 21)
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Release of Prisoners of War and Tracing Missing Persons After the End of Hostilities
The Conflict in Western Sahara (Parts A. and C.)
USA, Guantánamo, End of "Active Hostilities" in Afghanistan
USA, Jawad v. Gates
Eritrea/Djibouti: Repatriation of POWs
UN, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances: Report on Mission to Serbia, including Kosovo
BIBLIOGRAPHIC RESOURCES
BAXTER Richard R., “Asylum to Prisoners of War”, in BYIL, Vol. 30, 1953, pp. 489-498 DINSTEIN Yoram, “The Release of Prisoners of War”, in Studies and Essays on International Humanitarian Law and Red Cross Principles in Honour of Jean Pictet, Geneva/The Hague, ICRC/M. Nijhoff, 1984, pp. 37-45. REICHEL Daniel, “L’internement et le rapatriement des militaires soviétiques réfugiés en Suisse pendant le Seconde Guerre Mondiale”, in Actes du symposium 1982, Lausanne, Éditions du Centre d’Histoire, 1982, pp. 77-90 SASSÒLI Marco, “The Status, Treatment and Repatriation of Deserters under International Humanitarian Law”, in Yearbook of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, 1985, pp. 9-36. SCHAPIRO L. B., “Repatriation of Deserters”, in BYIL, Vol. 29, 1952, pp. 310-324. SHIELDS DELESSERT Christiane, Release and Repatriation of Prisoners of War at the End of Active Hostilities: A Study of Article 118, paragraph 1, of the Third Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Zurich, Schulthess, Études suisses de Droit international, Vol. 5, 1977, 225 pp.
