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==Geneva Conventions== The [[Geneva Conventions]] (GC) and their Additional Protocols (APs) require that any [[prisoners of war]] facing a judicial proceeding receive a fair trial.<ref name="Bhuta">Nehal Bhuta, [https://www.ejiltalk.org/joint-series-on-international-law-and-armed-conflict-fair-trial-guarantees-in-armed-conflict/ Joint Series on International Law and Armed Conflict: Fair Trial Guarantees in Armed Conflict], ''[[EJIL: Talk!]] Blog of the European Journal of European Law'' (September 22, 2016).</ref> For example, Articles 102β108 of the 1949 [[Third Geneva Convention]] detail requirements for the fairness of trials against prisoners of war.<ref name=Bhuta/> Other provisions require a "fair and regular trial"; "safeguards of proper trial and defence"; an "impartial and regularly constituted court respecting the generally recognized principles of regular judicial procedure"; a "regularly constituted court affording all the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples"; and "court offering the essential guarantees of independence and impartiality".<ref name=Bhuta/>
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