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Article 74 - Relief Shipments: Exemption from Charges and Dues

from Section V - Relations of prisoners of war with the exterior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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International Committee of the Red Cross
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Summary

The purpose of this provision is to ensure that financial constraints areno impediment to the sending and receiving of correspondence by prisoners ofwar, or to their receiving relief supplies and remittances of money. Thisarticle is therefore a further articulation, and practical facilitation, ofthe principles underpinning Articles 63, 71 and 72 of the Third Convention,allowing prisoners of war to maintain such forms of interaction with theoutside world.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 1189 - 1202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Pilloud, Claude, ‘Les Conventions de Genève et les communications télégraphiques’, Revue internationale de la Croix-Rouge, Vol. 41, No. 481, January 1959, pp. 9–19.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Spencer, John H., ‘The Franking Privilege for Postal Communications with Prisoners of War’, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 35, No. 2, April 1941, pp. 365–371.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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