Practice Relating to Rule 99. Deprivation of Liberty
Canada’s LOAC Manual (2001), in its chapter on the treatment of civilians in the hands of a party to the conflict or an occupying power and, more specifically, in a section entitled “Treatment of internees”, states: “Protected persons may be interned only in accordance with the provisions of [the 1949 Geneva Convention IV] and only in cases when they pose a threat to the state in whose hands they are.”