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Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions ; First and Second Geneva Conventions,
article 12 first paragraph; Third Geneva Convention, article 13; Fourth Geneva Convention,
articles 5 and 27 first paragraph; GC Additional Protocol I, article 75(1); and GC Additional
Protocol II, article 4(1).
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Third Geneva Convention, article 87, third paragraph; Fourth Geneva Convention IV,
article 32; GC Additional Protocol I, article 75 (2)(iii); and GC Additional Protocol II,
article 4(2)(a).
170
Article 3 common to the Geneva Conventions ; First and Second Geneva Conventions,
article 12 second paragraph; Third Geneva Convention, articles 17, fourth paragraph; 87, third
paragraph; and 89; Fourth Geneva Convention, article 32; GC Additional Protocol I,
article 75(1); and GC Additional Protocol II, article 4(1).
171
“Enforced disappearance” is not explicitly referred to in international humanitarian law
instruments but it violates or threatens to violate a range of customary rules of international
humanitarian law.
172
The conditions of deprivation of liberty are strictly regulated under the four Geneva
Conventions and its Additional Protocol I:; First Geneva Convention, articles 28, 30 and 32;
Second Geneva Convention, articles 36 and 37; Third Geneva Convention, articles 21 and 118;
Fourth Geneva Convention, article 42; and GC Additional Protocol I, article 75(3).
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Human rights provisions applicable to these cases are notably included in the Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, articles 7, 9,
and 10 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; arts. 37-40 of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child; the Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any
Form of Detention or Imprisonment; the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles
Deprived of their Liberty; and the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced
Disappearance.
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ICC Statute, articles 8(2)(a)(ii) and (vii) and article 8 (2)(c)(i).
175
Information available on the website of the Higher Relief Council,
http://www.lebanonundersiege.gov.lb/ (retrieved on 8 November 2006).
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Of the 406,342 officially registered Palestinian refugees living in 12 refugee camps
throughout Lebanon (UNRWA, 30 June 2006).
177
According to the General Directorate, Internal Security Forces, 22 August 2006, included in
the report submitted to the Commission by Bar Association in Beirut.
178
WFP. Lebanon Crisis: WFP Rapid Food Security Assessment, 27 August 10 September 2006, page 18.
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