text: Chapter 5
  party, must be allowed to continue to carry out duties whenever the cultural property for which they are
  responsible has also fallen into the hands of the opposing party (1954 Hague art, 15). Such personnel are
  analogous to medical and religious personnel who also are to continue to carry out their medical and spiritual
  duties when they have fallen into the hands of the enemy. Certain Civil Affairs Soldiers and Marines may
  have training in and assigned duties to help protect cultural property.
  PROVISIONS COMMON TO THE TERRITORIES OF THE PARTIES
  TO THE CONFLICT AND TO OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
  5-66. All protected persons are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their person, their honor, their
  family rights, their religious convictions and practices, and their manners and customs. They are to be
  humanely treated at all times and are to be protected especially against all acts of violence or threats thereof
  and against insults and public curiosity.
  5-67. Women must be especially protected against any attack on their honor, in particular against rape, forced
  prostitution, or any form of indecent assault (GC art. 27). Although the GC provides special protection for
  women against these offenses, all individuals, including children and men, should also be protected against
  these offenses. Indecent assault is generally referred to today as sexual assault (see DOD Law of War Manual,
  10.5.1.2).
  5-68. Without prejudice to the provisions relating to their state of health, age, and sex, all protected persons
  are to be treated with the same consideration by the party to the conflict in whose power they are, without
  any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, religion, or political opinion (GC art. 82). Distinctions
  are permitted, and in some cases required, for humanitarian reasons. For example, the GC provides for special
  treatment for children during internment. Distinction based on religion, political opinion, or other similar
  criteria may also be made so long as it is not adverse and it is made to advance legitimate interests, such as
  maintaining order in a place of internment (see DOD Law of War Manual, 10.5.5).
  5-69. The taking of hostages is prohibited (GC art. 34). The presence of protected persons may not be used
  to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, such as the practice of using “human
  shields” is prohibited (GC art. 28; consider AP I art. 51(7)).
  5-70. Internees must at all times be protected against insults and public curiosity. For example, displaying
  internees in a humiliating fashion on television or on the internet would be prohibited. For this reason and
  others, DOD policy has prohibited the taking of photographs of detainees except for authorized purposes (see
  DOD Law of War Manual, 10.5.2).
  5-71. No physical or moral coercion may be exercised against protected persons, in particular to obtain
  information from them or third parties (GC art. 31). For example, protected persons in occupied territory may
  not be compelled to provide information about their State’s military defenses. Other requirements, including
  the requirements of U.S. law and policy, would apply to the interrogation of protected persons. The GC’s
  prohibition against the use of coercion does not apply to those measures implicitly or explicitly authorized
  by the GC, such as the use of force to prevent one internee from harming another, or other lawful measures
  that are otherwise consistent with the GC, such as the use of force to prevent internees from escaping
  internment (see DOD Law of War Manual, 10.5.3.1).
  5-72. Protected persons must at all times be protected, particularly against acts or threats of violence. For
  example, murder of protected persons is prohibited. Protected persons should be protected not only against
  unlawful acts by the agents of the detaining power, but also against violence from other protected persons,
  such as during internment or, in the case of protected persons in a belligerent’s home territory, violence from
  members of the civilian population (see DOD Law of War Manual, 10.5.1).
  5-73. Parties to the GC specifically agree that each of them is prohibited from taking any measure of such a
  character as to cause the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This
  prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishment, mutilation, and any medical or scientific
  experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment of a protected person, but also to any other measures
  of brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents (GC art. 32).