DETENTION OF FOREIGN PRISONERS OF WAR IN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AS A FORCED MEASURE: PROBLEMS OF COMPLIANCE WITH CRIMINAL ENFORCEMENT LEGISLATION AND INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the legal nature of the detention of foreign prisoners of war incorrectional institutions of the Russian Federation in the absence of specialized penitentiary facilities. Thestudy was carried out on the basis of a regulatory analysis of the Criminal Executive Code of the RussianFederation, the norms of international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva Conventions of August12, 1949.The object of the study is social relations arising in the field of maintenance and protection of prisoners ofwar in correctional institutions of the Russian Federation. The subject of the study is the norms of internationalhumanitarian law, the norms of the penal legislation of the Russian Federation and the practice of theirapplication to prisoners of war held in correctional institutions.The purpose of the study is a comprehensive analysis of the compliance of the current penal legislationand the practice of its application with international legal standards for the detention of prisoners of war, theidentification of conflicts and the proposal of measures for their harmonization. The objectives of the studyare determined: analysis of international legal standards for the detention of prisoners of war; considerationof the provisions of the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation concerning the legal status offoreign citizens; identification of conflicts between the status of a prisoner of war and the status of a convictwhen placed in correctional institutions; assessment of the practice of keeping prisoners of war in terms ofthe principles of penal law.In the process of research, general scientific methods of cognition were applied: analysis, synthesis,deduction, induction. Special methods were: historical and legal analysis of the development of norms onthe status of prisoners of war; comparative legal analysis of the provisions of Russian penal legislation andinternational humanitarian law. As a result of the study, significant conflicts were revealed between the statusof a prisoner of war under international law and the status of a convict under Russian penal legislation.
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