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This requirement does not compel the competent authorities to choose disciplinary overjudicial proceedings in any particular case. 44110.26.3 Special Surveillance of Internees Who Have Previously Escaped or Attempted toEscape. Although paragraph 3 of Article 118 of the GC provides that internees who have serveddisciplinary or judicial sentences shall not be treated differently from other internees, 442 interneespunished as a result of escape or attempt to escape may be subjected to special surveillance, oncondition that such surveillance: (1) does not affect the state of their health; (2) is exercised in aplace of internment; and (3) does not entail the abolition of any of the safeguards granted by theGC. 44310.26.4 Notification of Escape and Recapture. If an internee escapes, the State of whichthe internee was a national or in which the national resided should be notified by the DetainingPower’s National Protected Person Information Bureau through the intermediary of theProtecting Powers and Central Information Agency for protected persons. 44410.27 GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO BOTH JUDICIAL AND DISCIPLINARY SANCTIONSREGARDING INTERNEESThis section addresses the rules that apply to both judicial and disciplinary sanctionsregarding internees.10.27.1 Applicability of the Laws in Force to Internees. Subject to the provisions ofChapter IX of the GC, the laws in force in the territory in which they are detained will continueto apply to internees who commit offenses during internment. 44510.27.2 Only Disciplinary Punishments for Internee-Specific Offenses. If general laws,regulations, or orders declare acts committed by internees to be punishable, whereas the sameacts are not punishable when committed by persons who are not internees, such acts shall entaildisciplinary punishments only. 446441 Compare § 9.26.2 (Leniency in Favor of Disciplinary Rather Than Judicial Proceedings).442 Refer to § 10.27.5 (Treatment of Internees Who Have Served Sentences).443 GC art. 120 (“Article 118, paragraph 3, notwithstanding, internees punished as a result of escape or attempt toescape, may be subjected to special surveillance, on condition that such surveillance does not affect the state of theirhealth, that it is exercised in a place of internment and that it does not entail the abolition of any of the safeguardsgranted by the present Convention.”).444 Refer to § 10.31.1 (Accountability Information That Parties to a Conflict Should Collect).445 GC art. 117 (“Subject to the provisions of the present Chapter, the laws in force in the territory in which they aredetained will continue to apply to internees who commit offences during internment.”).446 GC art. 117 (“If general laws, regulations or orders declare acts committed by internees to be punishable,whereas the same acts are not punishable when committed by persons who are not internees, such acts shall entaildisciplinary punishments only.”).707

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