Iraqi prisoners should be released July 1: Red Cross

[floda]

Sunday June 13, 2004
By SAM CAGE
Associated Press Writer
GENEVA (AP) All Iraqi prisoners of war and interned civilians should be released when sovereignty is transferred to a new Iraqi government, according to rules governing warfare, a spokeswoman for the international Red Cross said Sunday.

``If we consider that the occupation ends June 30, that would mean it's the end of the international armed conflict,'' Nada Doumani of the International Committee of the Red Cross told The Associated Press Sunday by phone from Baghdad.

According to article 118 of the third Geneva Convention, prisoners of war should be repatriated without delay at the end of hostilities. Article 133 of the fourth convention says that interned civilians should also be released when conflict ends.

It remains to be seen whether the occupation effectively ends with the handover of sovereignty, however, and Doumani stressed that ``the situation on the ground determines the facts.''

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http://cbsnewyork.com/international/RedCross-IraqiPrisone-ai/resources_news_html

[2Design]

1. This a Very nice to see

I sure hope the Red Cross and Amnesty continue to bring pressure to this Hitler bunch of rhis illegal president

[the Kelly Gang]

2. I don't actually see how people can be imprisoned by an invader

in their own country.:shrug: