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Article 58 - Ready Money

from Section IV - Financial resources of prisoners of war

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

The first sentence of Article 58(1) recognizes the right of the DetainingPower to determine the maximum amount of cash or of camp money – normallyissued for prisoners’ use inside the camp – that prisoners of war may havein their possession. The purpose of this provision is, on the one hand, toensure that prisoners of war have a reasonable amount of money at theirdisposal for daily purchases and, on the other hand, to limit that amount toavoid such money being used to facilitate escape or other abuses. TheDetaining Power has the unilateral right to determine the amount until anarrangement on the matter is reached with the Protecting Power, if any.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 1048 - 1056
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Levie, Howard S., Prisoners of War in International Armed Conflict, International Law Studies, U.S. Naval War College, Vol. 59, 1978, pp. 194–212.Google Scholar
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Sanna, Silvia, ‘Treatment of Prisoners of War’, in Clapham, Andrew, Gaeta, Paola and Sassòli, Marco (eds), The 1949 Geneva Conventions: A Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 1004–1006.Google Scholar

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