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complaints, petitions, and reports may be subject to security review and censorship to ensure thatthey are not misused. 411The censoring of correspondence addressed to internees or sent by them shall be done asquickly as possible. 41210.23.6.1 Examination of Consignments. The examination of consignmentsintended for internees shall not be carried out under conditions that will expose the goods inthem to deterioration. 413 It shall be done in the presence of the addressee, or of a fellow-interneeduly delegated by him or her. 414 This measure is intended to prevent any misappropriation; thefellow-internee would generally be a member of the Internee Committee. 415The delivery to internees of individual or collective consignments shall not be delayedunder the pretext of difficulties of censorship. 41610.23.6.2 Limitation on Prohibition of Correspondence. Any prohibition ofcorrespondence ordered by the parties to the conflict for either military or political reasons shallbe only temporary, and its duration shall be as short as possible. 41710.24 PRIVATE LEGAL MATTERS OF INTERNEES10.24.1 Civil Capacity. Internees shall retain their full civil capacity and shall exercisesuch attendant rights as may be compatible with their status. 418 Their civil capacity continues to411 Refer to § 10.21.2.1 (Review and Censorship of Requests and Complaints by the Detaining Power); § 10.21.3(Periodic Reports by the Internee Committees).412 GC art. 112 (“The censoring of correspondence addressed to internees or despatched by them shall be done asquickly as possible.”).413 GC art. 112 (“The examination of consignments intended for internees shall not be carried out under conditionsthat will expose the goods contained in them to deterioration.”).414 GC art. 112 (“It shall be done in the presence of the addressee, or of a fellow-internee duly delegated by him.”).415 GC COMMENTARY 470 (“Parcels which cannot be examined by the Detaining Power in the presence of theinternee, would be examined in the presence of a fellow-internee duly delegated by him. This measure is intendedto prevent any misappropriation. In general, the fellow-internee duly delegated by the addressee will be the memberof the Internee Committee entrusted with the task of receiving and distributing relief supplies in accordance withArticle 109. A reference to the competence of the Internee Committee was, however, avoided in the Convention,because it was wished to leave the person concerned the opportunity of appointing someone as his delegate who wasnot a member of the Internee Committee, to cover cases where he did not have complete confidence in any of itsmembers.”).416 GC art. 112 (“The delivery to internees of individual or collective consignments shall not be delayed under thepretext of difficulties of censorship.”).417 GC art. 112 (“Any prohibition of correspondence ordered by the Parties to the conflict either for military orpolitical reasons, shall be only temporary and its duration shall be as short as possible.”).418 GC art. 80 (“Internees shall retain their full civil capacity and shall exercise such attendant rights as may becompatible with their status.”).703