Document printed from the ICRC web site on the 24.11.2009
Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
Article
Part III : Status and treatment of protected persons #Section I : Provisions common to the territories of the parties to the conflict and to occupied territories
Art. 33 - Individual responsibility, collective penalties, pillage, reprisals
 |
|
|
|
ARTICLE 33
No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Pillage is prohibited.
Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
