3.4 Prisoners of War

3.4.1 Prisoners of WarThe GC III's regime: The status: the captured combatants (the forces'-and-the levee's members; the entitled civilians — the war correspondents, the supply contractors, the merchant crews). Thetreatment's core: the humane treatment (the violence, the intimidation, the insult, the public curiosity's bars); the quarter's maintenance (the POWs' subsistence by the detaining power); the labour's rules (the non-hazardous, the officers' exemption); the escape's privileged faces (the non- punishment of the escape itself — the lore); the interrogation's limits (the name-rank-date only); the release's timing (the cessation's face — the repatriation); the protecting power-and-the ICRC's access (the delegates' visits — the supervision's machinery).3.4.2 SpiesThe disguised gatherer: the enemy's lines' clandestine information-gathering (the Hague's definition); the spy's fate: the domestic law's trial (no POW status); the captured-in-act rule (the uniformed return's exception — the rejoining's immunity for the earlier spying); the modern faces (the cyber-espionage's classification questions).3.4.3 MercenariesThe Additional Protocol I's definition (the six-fold test: the special recruitment, abroad, the private gain's motive, the non-nationality, the non-armed-forces' membership, the non-resident status); the mercenary's fate: neither combatant nor POW (the domestic prosecution); the definitionalgaps (the capture's difficulty — the modern conflicts' few convictions); the UN Convention against mercenaries (the African Convention's faces).3.4.4 Mercenaries and Private Military Security Company/PersonnelThe PMSC phenomenon: the private contractors in the modern conflicts (the Iraq-and- Afghanistan's scale); the…