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disciplinary punishment

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ARTICLE-82     [go to this ARTICLE]
... If any law, regulation or order of the Detaining Power shall declare acts committed by a prisoner of war to be punishable, whereas the same acts would not be punishable if committed by a member of the forces of the Detaining Power, such acts shall entail disciplinary punishments only. ...


ARTICLE-89     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The disciplinary punishments applicable to prisoners of war are the following: ...
... In no case shall disciplinary punishments be inhuman, brutal or dangerous to the health of prisoners of war. ...


ARTICLE-90     [go to this ARTICLE]
... The duration of any single punishment shall in no case exceed thirty days. Any period of confinement awaiting the hearing of a disciplinary offence or the award of disciplinary punishment shall be deducted from an award pronounced against a prisoner of war. ...
... The period between the pronouncing of an award of disciplinary punishment and its execution shall not exceed one month. ...
... When a prisoner of war is awarded a further disciplinary punishment, a period of at least three days shall elapse between the execution of any two of the punishments, if the duration of one of these is ten days or more. ...


ARTICLE-92     [go to this ARTICLE]
... A prisoner of war who attempts to escape and is recaptured before having made good his escape in the sense of Article 91 shall be liable only to a disciplinary punishment in respect of this act, even if it is a repeated offence. ...


ARTICLE-93     [go to this ARTICLE]
... In conformity with the principle stated in Article 83, offences committed by prisoners of war with the sole intention of facilitating their escape and which do not entail any violence against life or limb, such as offences against public property, theft without intention of self-enrichment, the drawing up or use of false papers, the wearing of civilian clothing, shall occasion disciplinary punishment only. ...
... Prisoners of war who aid or abet an escape or an attempt to escape shall be liable on this count to disciplinary punishment only. ...


ARTICLE-96     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Without prejudice to the competence of courts and superior military authorities, disciplinary punishment may be ordered only by an officer having disciplinary powers in his capacity as camp commander, or by a responsible officer who replaces him or to whom he has delegated his disciplinary powers. ...
... A record of disciplinary punishments shall be maintained by the camp commander and shall be open to inspection by representatives of the Protecting Power. ...


ARTICLE-97     [go to this ARTICLE]
... Prisoners of war shall not in any case be transferred to penitentiary establishments (prisons, penitentiaries, convict prisons, etc.) to undergo disciplinary punishment therein. ...
... All premises in which disciplinary punishments are undergone shall conform to the sanitary requirements set forth in Article 25. A prisoner of war undergoing punishment shall be enabled to keep himself in a state of cleanliness, in conformity with Article 29. ...
... Women prisoners of war undergoing disciplinary punishment shall be confined in separate quarters from male prisoners of war and shall be under the immediate supervision of women. ...


ARTICLE-98: III. Judicial proceedings     [go to this ARTICLE]
... A prisoner of war undergoing confinement as a disciplinary punishment, shall continue to enjoy the benefits of the provisions of this Convention except in so far as these are necessarily rendered inapplicable by the mere fact that he is confined. In no case may he be deprived of the benefits of the provisions of Articles 78 and 126. ...
... A prisoner of war awarded disciplinary punishment may not be deprived of the prerogatives attached to his rank. ...
... Prisoners of war awarded disciplinary punishment shall be allowed to exercise and to stay in the open air at least two hours daily. ...


ARTICLE-115     [go to this ARTICLE]
... No prisoner of war on whom a disciplinary punishment has been imposed and who is eligible for repatriation or for accommodation in a neutral country, may be kept back on the plea that he has not undergone his punishment. ...

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