text: Chapter 6
  RIGHT OF APPEALS
  6-196. A convicted person shall have the right of appeal provided for by the laws applied by the court. The
  convicted person shall be fully informed of the right to appeal or petition and of the time limit within which
  to do so. The penal procedures in Section III of the GC (which is the section of the GC pertaining to occupied
  territories) is to apply, as far as they are applicable, to appeals. Where the laws applied by the court make no
  provision for appeals, the convicted person shall have the right to petition against the finding and sentence to
  the competent authority of the Occupying Power (GC art. 73).
  ASSISTANCE BY THE PROTECTING POWER
  6-197. Representatives of the protecting power shall have the right to attend the trial of any protected person
  unless, the hearing, as an exceptional measures, must be held in camera in the interests of the security of the
  Occupying Power, which shall then notify the protecting power. A notification with respect to the date and
  place of trial must be sent to the protecting power (GC art. 74).
  6-198. Any judgment involving a sentence of death or imprisonment for two years or more must be
  communicated, with the relevant grounds, as rapidly as possible to the protecting power. The notification
  must contain a reference to the notification made under Article 71 of the GC (as described in paragraph 6-
  164), and, in the case of sentences of imprisonment, the name of the place where the sentence is to be served.
  A record of judgments, other than those referred to above, must be kept by the court and must be open to
  inspection by representatives of the protecting power. Any period allowed for appeal in the case of sentences
  involving the death penalty or imprisonment of two years or more must not run until notification of judgment
  has been received by the protecting power (GC art. 74).
  DEATH SENTENCE
  6-199. In no case may persons condemned to death be deprived of the right of petition for pardon or
  reprieve. No death sentence may be carried out before the expiration of a period of at least six months from
  the date of receipt by the protecting power of the notification of the final judgment confirming the death
  sentence, or of an order denying pardon or reprieve. This six month period of suspension of the death sentence
  may be reduced in individual cases in circumstances of grave emergency involving an organized threat to the
  security of the Occupying Power or its forces, provided always that the protecting power is notified of such
  reduction and is given reasonable time and opportunity to make representations to the competent occupying
  authorities with respect to such death sentences (GC art. 75).
  DETENTION OF PROTECTED PERSONS CONVICTED OR ACCUSED OF OFFENSES
  6-200. If found in occupied territory, protected persons accused of offenses must be detained in the occupied
  country, and, if convicted, they shall serve their sentences therein. They must, if possible, be separated from
  other detainees and shall enjoy conditions of food and hygiene that will be sufficient to keep them in good
  health, and that will be at least equal to those individuals imprisoned in the occupied country. Much like
  internees, such protected persons must receive the medical attention required by their state of health, have a
  right to receive any spiritual assistance that they may require, have the right to receive relief parcels monthly,
  and have the right to be visited by the protecting power or the ICRC in accordance with Article 43 of the GC.
  Women must be confined in separate quarters and be under the supervision of women. Proper regard must
  be paid to the treatment of children under the age of 15 (GC art. 76).
  DISPOSITION OF ACCUSED OR CONVICTED PROTECTED PERSONS UPON CLOSE OF
  OCCUPATION
  6-201. Protected persons accused of offenses or convicted by courts in occupied territory must be handed
  over at the close of occupation with the relevant records to the authorities of the liberated territory (GC art.
  77). Pending their transfer to such authorities, such protected persons must continue to be protected by the
  GC because protected persons whose release, repatriation, or re-establishment may take place after such dates
  continue to benefit from the protections of the GC (see DOD Law of War Manual, 11.11.8).