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International Solidarity and Protection of Political Detainees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Jacques Moreillon*
Affiliation:
Director of the Department of Principles and Law in ICRC

Extract

To speak on the theme “Solidarity and Protection of Political Detainees” is unquestionably a difficult undertaking. Today, in 1980, the problem of so-called “political” detainees is one of the most controversial of issues and also one that has become heavily politicized. It is no easy matter to discern any truly universal solidarity concerning such a problem.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1981

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Footnotes

1

Paper read at the Congress “International Solidarity and Humanitarian Actions”, of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, 10–13 September 1980.