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Article 130 - Grave Breaches

from Section I - General provisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

Article 130 is closely linked to Article 129. It contains an exhaustivelist of offences bearing the most gravity, for which States undertake toprovide effective penal sanctions and to either prosecute or extradite,regardless of their nationality, alleged offenders who are suspected ofhaving committed one of these grave breaches against persons protected bythe Convention. Article 130 is common to the four Conventions. It isreproduced in identical terms in the First and Second Conventions butcontains two additional grave breaches in the Third Convention.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 1875 - 1917
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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