Aaron Huey America's native prisoners of war

(i) The release of prisoners of war, and calls for the acceleration of exchanges of prisoners

The Frente Polisario continues to hold Moroccan prisoners of war.

If we don't supply vitamins to the prisoners, it's a war crime.

All western Indians at that point in time were now prisoners of war.

The number of juvenile delinquents and prisoners had risen dramatically in post war Europe.

Prisoners are still born into prisoner of war camps long after the guards are gone.

Continued violations of human rights were of concern and her delegation urged both the Saharan Government and Morocco to release all prisoners of war and political prisoners.

1949 Geneva Conventions on Wounded and Sick (art. 2) Prisoners of War (art. 2) Civilians (art. 2)

This rule is further supported by obligations regarding both prisoners of war and civilian detainees in humanitarian law.

The decision by the Frente POLISARIO to release the last group of Moroccan war prisoners was an important step forward.

The Frente Polisario continued to hold 410 Moroccan prisoners of war, some of whom have been in captivity for many years.

He had meetings with members of the Kuwaiti National Committee for Missing Persons and Prisoners of War Affairs and other Kuwaiti officials.

In fact, Puerto Rico's colonial status, the United States military presence in Vieques and the detention of Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war provided clear evidence that the United States itself violated international law and human rights.

They were joined by Soviet prisoners of war, Roma, and almost 30 other nationalities Czechs, Slovaks, Belgians, Danes, French, Greeks and Dutch, and also German political prisoners, to name just a few of the nations who suffered in the camp.

He also welcomed the release of the last political prisoners and prisoners of war by the Frente POLISARIO and expressed the hope that the Government of Morocco would clarify the situation of 150 missing Saharan soldiers and 500 Saharans, who were victims of forced disappearance.

Prisoners

Lord Newall (International Committee for Prisoners of Tindouf) said that as the Chairman of that organization, he had visited Western Sahara, spoken with former prisoners of war and their families, and listened to testimony concerning human rights abuses, harsh living conditions, torture, forced labour and solitary confinement.

For us Poles, their most shocking example was the murder of 22,000 Polish officers, prisoners of war whose ashes lie in the cemeteries of Katyn, Miednoye and Kharkov.

It is estimated that among the 1.6 million people brought to Auschwitz, there were at least 1,100,000 Jews from all the countries of occupied Europe, over 140,000 Poles (mostly intellectuals and political prisoners, but also people caught in random manhunts in the streets of Polish towns), approximately 20,000 Roma from several European countries, over 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and thousands of prisoners of other nationalities.

The conflict in the contested border regions of Sool and Sanaag, continued between Somaliland and Puntland , causing serious human rights violations, and resulting in prisoners of war on both sides.

The border regions of Sool and Sanaag, however, remained contested areas between Somaliland and Puntland , causing serious human rights violations, and resulting in the taking of prisoners of war on both sides.

We now live in a country that has more prisoners than farmers 2.1 million prisoners, 1.9 million farmers.

Combatants of national liberation movements like the Frente POLISARIO enjoyed special protection under General Assembly resolution 3103 (XXVIII) and the 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War applied to them.

While visiting the prison in Garowe, the independent expert was surprised to learn through interviews with some of them, that about 30 were prisoners of war from the Sool Sanaag border conflict with Somaliland .

Teachers were prisoners. Teachers were volunteers.

Ten prisoners broke out of jail.

A few years ago I am sure all of you were shocked, as I was, with the revelation of American soldiers abusing prisoners in a strange place in a controversial war, Abu Ghraib in Iraq.

On one particular occasion, one of the guards threw a grenade into the prisoners' lavatory while it was full of prisoners.

Local human rights groups say that more than half of the 7,000 prisoners being held in Burundi claim they are political prisoners.

One thousand prisoners who sat in meditation.

Prisoners were tortured, starved and ultimately executed.

Friends of Detainees and Prisoners Association, Nazareth

On December 29th, U.S. troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid fire weapon that fired exploding shells called a Hotchkiss gun.

(d) The Model Agreement on the Transfer of Foreign Prisoners (the first model bilateral treaty) and recommendations on the treatment of foreign prisoners.

Mr. Ramos Rosado ( Pro Libertad Freedom Campaign) said that his organization embodied a popular anti imperialist and anti colonialist movement for the liberation of Puerto Rican political detainees and prisoners of war and the decolonization of Puerto Rico.

Recalling the obligation to respect and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, of 12 August 1949, relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, as well as, for the States parties, the two Protocols Additional of 8 June 1977,

Call for an amnesty for all political prisoners.

Israel released 159 prisoners on 27 December 2004.

Prisoners are allowed phone access to their lawyers.

Troops under the command of Laurent Nkunda were responsible for the killing of at least 14 civilians and 5 prisoners of war, the systematic rape of the women they encountered, many assaults and the systematic looting of the town.

The Bush administration says that the detainees are enemy combatants in the global war against terror a war that is being waged around the world, and that could last for decades. The commander of the Guantánamo task force, Rear Admiral Harry B. Harris, Jr., recently defended harsh treatment of his prisoners, claiming, They re all terrorists they re all enemy combatants.

Recalling the obligation to respect and strictly observe international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, of 12 August 1949, relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, as well as, for the States parties, the two Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 8 June 1977,

Recalling the obligation to respect and to ensure respect for international humanitarian law, including the Geneva Conventions, of 12 August 1949, relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War and to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, as well as, for the States parties, the two Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 8 June 1977,

Meanwhile, the joint Israeli Palestinian ministerial committee on Palestinian prisoners did not reach the hoped for agreement on the release of an additional 400 Palestinian prisoners.