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Practice Relating to Rule 124. ICRC Access to Persons Deprived of Their Liberty
III. Military Manuals
Zimbabwe’s Code of Conduct for Combatants (1993) states:
- [ICRC delegates] must be able to have access to all prisoners or detainees and speak to them freely and without witness;
- they must have access to all places of detention and be allowed to repeat visits;
- they must be given lists of all persons to be visited (or able to draw up such lists on the spot). 
Zimbabwe, Code of Conduct for Combatants, Joint publication of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and the International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Delegation in Harare, 1993, p. 19.
The Code of Conduct also states: “As a State party to the [1949] Geneva Conventions … your country is bound by these treaties … The States party to the Geneva Conventions pledge to … [a]uthorize ICRC delegates to visit detainees and talk to them in private.” 
Zimbabwe, Code of Conduct for Combatants, Joint publication of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and the International Committee of the Red Cross Regional Delegation in Harare, 1993, pp. 14–16.