Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
Practice Relating to Rule 118. Provision of Basic Necessities to Persons Deprived of Their Liberty
In 1991, in a document entitled “Examples of violations of the rules of international law committed by the so-called armed forces of Slovenia”, the Ministry of Defence of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia included the following example: “Accommodation in prisons is absolutely unacceptable: people sleep on concrete floors, are being kept hungry and without minimum conditions for personal hygiene.”