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9.33 ACCESS TO POWS BY THE PROTECTING POWERS, ICRC, AND RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS9.33.1 Access by Protecting Powers. Representatives or delegates of the ProtectingPowers shall have permission to go to all places where POWs may be, particularly to places ofinternment, imprisonment, and labor, and shall have access to all premises occupied by POWs;they also shall be allowed to go to the places of departure, passage, and arrival of POWs who arebeing transferred. 803 They shall be able to interview POWs, and in particular POWRepresentatives, without witnesses, either personally or through an interpreter. 804Representatives and delegates of the Protecting Powers shall have full liberty to select theplaces they wish to visit. 805 The duration and frequency of these visits shall not be restricted. 806Visits may not be prohibited except for reasons of imperative military necessity, and then only asan exceptional and temporary measure. 8079.33.1.1 Participation of Compatriots of POWs in Visits. The Detaining Powerand the Power on which these POWs depend may agree, if necessary, that compatriots of thesePOWs be permitted to participate in the visits. 8089.33.1.2 ICRC Delegates Enjoying the Same Prerogatives of Access. Thedelegates of the ICRC shall enjoy the same prerogatives as those of the representatives anddelegates of the Protecting Powers described in Article 126 of the GPW. 809The appointment of such delegates shall be submitted to the approval of the Powerdetaining the POWs to be visited. 8109.33.2 Access by Relief Societies and Other Organizations. Subject to the measures thatthe Detaining Powers may consider essential to ensure their security or to meet any otherreasonable need, the representatives of religious organizations, relief societies, or any otherorganization assisting POWs shall receive from these Powers, for themselves and their duly803 GPW art. 126 (“Representatives or delegates of the Protecting Powers shall have permission to go to all placeswhere prisoners of war may be, particularly to places of internment, imprisonment and labour, and shall have accessto all premises occupied by prisoners of war; they shall also be allowed to go to the places of departure, passage andarrival of prisoners who are being transferred.”).804 GPW art. 126 (“They shall be able to interview the prisoners, and in particular the prisoners’ representatives,without witnesses, either personally or through an interpreter.”).805 GPW art. 126 (“Representatives and delegates of the Protecting Powers shall have full liberty to select the placesthey wish to visit.”).806 GPW art. 126 (“The duration and frequency of these visits shall not be restricted.”).807 GPW art. 126 (“Visits may not be prohibited except for reasons of imperative military necessity, and then only asan exceptional and temporary measure.”).808 GPW art. 126 (“The Detaining Power and the Power on which the said prisoners of war depend may agree, ifnecessary, that compatriots of these prisoners of war be permitted to participate in the visits.”).809 GPW art. 126 (“The delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross shall enjoy the sameprerogatives.”).810 GPW art. 126 (“The appointment of such delegates shall be submitted to the approval of the Power detaining theprisoners of war to be visited.”).621