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POWs may voluntarily consent to give blood for transfusion or skin for grafting fortherapeutic purposes; such procedures should take place under conditions consistent withgenerally accepted medical standards and controls designed for the benefit of both the donor andthe recipient. 1139.5.3 Protection Against Insults and Public Curiosity. POWs must at all times beprotected against insults and public curiosity. 114 For example, organizing a parade of POWsthrough the civilian population, thereby exposing them to assault, ridicule, and insults, would beprohibited. 115 Displaying POWs in a humiliating fashion on television or on the internet wouldalso be prohibited. 116 For this reason and others, DoD policy has prohibited the taking ofphotographs of detainees except for authorized purposes. 117new remedies which science offers, provided always that such remedies have first been satisfactorily proved to beinnocuous and that they are administered for purely therapeutic purposes.”).113 Consider AP I art. 11 (“3. Exceptions to the prohibition in paragraph 2 (c) [against removal of tissue or organsfor transplantation except where these acts are justified] may be made only in the case of donations of blood fortransfusion or of skin for grafting, provided that they are given voluntarily and without any coercion or inducement,and then only for therapeutic purposes, under conditions consistent with generally accepted medical standards andcontrols designed for the benefit of both the donor and the recipient.”).114 GPW art. 13 (“Likewise, prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence orintimidation and against insults and public curiosity.”).115 See, e.g., Trial of Lieutenant General Kurt Maelzer, XI U.N. LAW REPORTS 53 (U.S. Military Commission,Florence, Italy, Sept. 9-14, 1946) (“Some time in January, 1944, Field Marshal Kesselring, commander-in-chief ofthe German forces in Italy, ordered the accused who was commander of Rome garrison to hold a parade of severalhundreds of British and American prisoners of war in the streets of the Italian capital. This parade, emulating thetradition of the triumphal marches of ancient Rome, was to be staged to bolster the morale of the Italian populationin view of the recent allied landings, not very far from the capital. The accused ordered the parade which took placeon 2nd February, 1944. 200 American prisoners of war were marched from the Coliseum, through the main streetsof Rome under armed German escort. ... A film was made of the parade and a great number of photographs takenwhich appeared in the Italian press under the caption ‘Anglo Americans enter Rome after all ... flanked by Germanbayonettes.’”) (ellipses in original); United States, et al. v. Araki, et al., Majority Judgment, International MilitaryTribunal for the Far East, 49,708, reprinted in NEIL BOISTER & ROBERT CRYER, DOCUMENTS ON THE TOKYOINTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL: CHARTER, INDICTMENT AND JUDGMENTS 574 (2008) (“About 1,000prisoners captured in the fighting in Malaya arrived in Korea and were marched through the streets of Seoul, Fusan,and Jinsen where they were paraded before 120,000 Koreans and 57,000 Japanese. These prisoners had previouslybeen subjected to malnutrition, ill-treatment and neglect so that their physical condition would elicit contempt fromthose who saw them.”); STUART I. ROCHESTER & FREDERICK KILEY, HONOR BOUND: THE HISTORY OF AMERICANPRISONERS OF WAR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, 1961-1973 196 (1998) (“[H]oping to win increased support from Hanoi’spatrons, [the North Vietnamese] deliberately marched the group [of POWs] past the Soviet and Chinese embassiesto impress officials there with the numbers of PWs the DRV held. As the column turned onto the main avenue, theprisoners were met by larger and noisier crowds, in some places massed 10 deep (John McKamey estimated as manyas a hundred thousand altogether). Cued by a chanting [Northern Vietnamese POW interrogator-indoctrinator] andincited by blaring loudspeakers and marshals with bullhorns, the throng erupted into a frenzy as the PWs filed past.The hostile galleries cursed the prisoners, hurled bricks and bottles, and pressed close enough to pummel them withoutstretched arms while guards grabbed the men by the hair or used rifle butts to force them to lower their heads.Scores of spectators broke through the makeshift barriers, darting in between the Americans—kicking, screaming,spitting, striking the defenseless men with clenched fists as they stumbled along dazed and now frightened.”).116 WILLIAM M. HAMMOND, THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN VIETNAM: PUBLIC AFFAIRS, THE MILITARY AND THEMEDIA, 1962-1968, 272 (1990) (“Hanoi itself diverted public attention in the United States by releasing photographs527