0031-0330 irl.qxd 126 2.3.2009 14:19 Page 126 THIRD GENEVA CONVENTION OF 1949 2) Discontinuance of privileges granted over and above the treatment provided for by the present Convention. 3) Fatigue duties not exceeding two hours daily. 4) Confinement. The punishment referred to under 3) shall not be applied to officers. In no case shall disciplinary punishments be inhuman, brutal or dangerous to the health of prisoners of war. II. Duration of punishments ART. 90. — 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 maximum of thirty days provided above may not be exceeded, even if the prisoner of war is answerable for several acts at the same time when he is awarded punishment, whether such acts are related or not. 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. Escapes ART. 91. — The escape of a prisoner of war shall be deemed to have succeeded when: I. Successful escape 1) he has joined the armed forces of the Power on which he depends, or those of an allied Power; 2) he has left the territory under the control of the Detaining Power, or of an ally of the said Power; 3) he has joined a ship flying the flag of the Power on which he depends, or of an allied Power, in the territorial waters of the Detaining Power, the said ship not being under the control of the last named Power. Prisoners of war who have made good their escape in the sense of this Article and who are recaptured, shall not be liable to any punishment in respect of their previous escape. II. Unsuccessful escape ART. 92. — 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.

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