Public International Law is a system of law
Can be punished.
Fundamental Guarantees (Art 75, I AP). Even if you are spy, saboteur or etc, then you get minimal
protection. Similar to hardcore human rights.
KIRJUTA SLAIDILT
Any person at time of war, regarding his or her status, has guarantees:
Prohibited at any time by civilians or military agents: (a) violence to life, health or physical or
mental well-being of persons, in particular murder: torture of all kinds, corporal punishments,
mutilation; (b) outrages upon personal dignity, humiliating and degrading: taking hostage,
collective punishment, threaths to commit any of the foregoing acts.
Any punishment imposed only by legal decision
Illegal combatants : myth
A merchanary is any person who: Art 47. (I AP)
Is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict.
Does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities
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