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Complaints and petitions
    ARTICLE 101

    Internees shall have the right to present to the authorities in whose power they are, any petition with regard to the conditions of internment to which they are subjected.
    They shall also have the right to apply without restriction through the Internee Committee or, if they consider it necessary, direct to the representatives of the Protecting Power, in order to indicate to them any points on which they may have complaints to make with regard to the conditions of internment.
    Such petitions and complaints shall be transmitted forthwith and without alteration, and even if the latter are recognized to be unfounded, they may not occasion any punishment.
    Periodic reports on the situation in places of internment and as to the needs of the internees,may be sent by the Internee Committees to the representatives of the Protecting Powers.


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