Source: https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/rus/docs/v2_cou_ar_rule100
Timestamp: 2020-01-23 05:30:23
Document Index: 735630575

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 3', '§ 4', '§ 5', '§ 2', '§ 5', '§ 5', '§ 4', '§ 2']

Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides that protected persons arrested on suspicion of performing acts prejudicial to the occupying power cannot be “deprived … of a fair and regular trial”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 4.003.
The manual further states that a “competent tribunal of the Occupying Power cannot impose any sentence without having proceeded to a regular trial”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 5.029(5).
With respect to non-international armed conflicts, the manual restates the provisions of common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) states that “depriving [a protected person] of his right to a regular and impartial trial” is a grave breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
In any judicial or administrative proceedings affecting children and adolescents, the governmental bodies shall guarantee [that children and adolescents enjoy] … all those rights provided for in the National Constitution [of Argentina], in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in international treaties ratified by the Argentine Nation and any laws promulgated in consequence of such treaties.
Argentina, Law on the Protection of Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights, 2005, Article 27.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides: “In any case, a prisoner of war shall not appear in front of a tribunal, whatever its nature, if it does not offer essential guarantees of independence and impartiality.”
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) provides that in non-international armed conflicts, “only a tribunal offering the essential guarantees of independence and impartiality can pronounce a sentence”.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) provides that presumption of innocence is a fundamental judicial guarantee which applies to prisoners of war and civilians in occupied territories.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 3.30 (POWs), § 4.15 (civilians) and § 5.09 (occupied territory).
The presumption of innocence is also a fundamental guarantee in situations of non-international armed conflict.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) provides, in a paragraph entitled “Right of defence”: “before giving a disciplinary penalty, the accused prisoner must be informed, with precision, of the acts he is charged with”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 2.082(2).
The accused prisoner of war will receive, as quickly as possible before the beginning of the trial, communication in an understandable language, of the bill of indictment as well as the acts which generally are notified to the accused in accordance with the laws in force in the army of the [detaining power].
The manual also provides that the occupying power shall inform “any indicted person … without delay, of the motives of accusation that have been formulated against him, in a language he will understand”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 5.029(2).
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1989) provides that, at least certain guarantees shall be respected, such as: “the information of the prisoner without delay of the details of the offence of which he is charged”.
The manual further states that any accused person shall be informed without delay of the particulars of the offences of which he is accused.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra, PC-08-01, Público, Edición 1989, Estado Mayor Conjunto de las Fuerzas Armadas, aprobado por Resolución No. 489/89 del Ministerio de Defensa, 23 April 1990, § 5.09(1) (occupied territories); see also § 4.15 (civilians).
The same provision applies in non-international armed conflicts.
Argentina’s Law of War Manual (1969) states that the verdict shall be given in “the shortest time limit as possible”.
The manual also provides that the occupying power shall conduct the case “in the most speedy way”.
Argentina, Leyes de Guerra , RC-46-1, Público, II Edición 1969, Ejército Argentino, Edición original aprobado por el Comandante en Jefe del Ejército, 9 May 1967, § 2.083(1).