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Part IIIStatus and Treatment of Protected PersonsSection IProvisions Common to the Territories of the Parties to the Conflict and to Occupied TerritoriesArticle 27Protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons, their honour, their family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They shall at all times be humanely treated, and shall be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof and against insults and public curiosity.Women shall be especially protected against any attack on their honour, in particular against rape, enforced prostitution, or any form of indecent assault.Without prejudice to the provisions relating to their state of health, age and sex, all protected persons shall be treated with the same consideration by the Party to the conflict in whose power they are, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, religion or political opinion.However, the Parties to the conflict may take such measures of control and security in regard to protected persons as may be necessary as a result of the war.Article 28The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations.Article 29The Party to the conflict in whose hands protected persons may be is responsible for the treatment accorded to them by its agents, irrespective of any individual responsibility which may be incurred.Article 30Protected persons shall have every facility for making application to the Protecting Powers, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the National Red Cross (Red Crescent, Red Lion and Sun) Society of the country where they may be, as well as to any organization that might assist them.These several organizations shall be granted all facilities for that purpose by the authorities, within the bounds set by military or security considerations.Apart from the visits of the delegates of the Protecting Powers and of the International Committee of the Red Cross, provided for by Article 143, the Detaining or Occupying Powers shall facilitate as much as possible visits to protected persons by the representatives of other organizations whose object is to give spiritual aid or material relief to such persons.Article 31No physical or moral coercion shall be exercised against protected persons, in particular to obtain information from them or from third parties.Article 32The High Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishment, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person but also to any other measures of brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents.Article 33No 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.Article 34The taking of hostages is prohibited.

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Geneva Convention (IV): Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons, Part II

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