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Potentially, there are three bodies of law that could govern the treatment of these prisoners:domestic American law in accordance with the rights guaranteed by the US Constitution;international human rights law to which the US is a party through its membership in the UN and its ratification of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights;international humanitarian law--also known as the laws of war--to which the US is also a party through its ratification of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and through its acceptance that certain provisions of the First Additional Protocol of 1977 have the status of customary international law that is binding on America as on all other governments.
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