Geneva Convention Article 4: Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War: Part I General Provisions
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Convention (Ill) relative to the Treatment of P.risoners of War. Geneva, 12 August
1949.
Part I .: General provisions
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A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
(1)
Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well 'as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
(2)
Members of other militias and member? of other volunteer corps, incuding those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a)
that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates;
(b)
that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance;
(c)
that of carrying arms openly;
(d)
that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and cus.toms of war.
(3)
Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to agovernment or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power..
(4)
Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as 'civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare. of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
(5)
Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and tt,e crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
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