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FOURTH GENEVA CONVENTION OF 1949
The period elapsing between the time of award of a disciplinary
punishment and its execution shall not exceed one month.
When an internee 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.
A record of disciplinary punishments shall be maintained by the
commandant of the place of internment and shall be open to
inspection by representatives of the Protecting Power.
Premises for
disciplinary
punishments
ART. 124. — Internees shall not in any case be transferred to
penitentiary establishments (prisons, penitentiaries, convict
prisons, etc.) to undergo disciplinary punishment therein.
The premises in which disciplinary punishments are undergone
shall conform to sanitary requirements; they shall in particular be
provided with adequate bedding. Internees undergoing punishment
shall be enabled to keep themselves in a state of cleanliness.
Women internees undergoing disciplinary punishment shall be
confined in separate quarters from male internees and shall be
under the immediate supervision of women.
Essential
safeguards
ART. 125. — Internees awarded disciplinary punishment shall be
allowed to exercise and to stay in the open air at least two hours
daily.
They shall be allowed, if they so request, to be present at the daily
medical inspections. They shall receive the attention which their
state of health requires and, if necessary, shall be removed to the
infirmary of the place of internment or to a hospital.
They shall have permission to read and write, likewise to send
and receive letters. Parcels and remittances of money, however, may
be withheld from them until the completion of their punishment;
such consignments shall meanwhile be entrusted to the Internee
Committee, who will hand over to the infirmary the perishable
goods contained in the parcels.
No internee given a disciplinary punishment may be deprived of
the benefit of the provisions of Articles 107 and 143 of the present
Convention.
Provisions
applicable to
judicial
proceedings
ART. 126. — The provisions of Articles 71 to 76 inclusive shall
apply, by analogy, to proceedings against internees who are in the
national territory of the Detaining Power.