Palestinian fighters captured by Israel are still not considered "prisoners of war," and, with very few exceptions, have to serve prison sentences in Israel.
Paul R. Kenny, a state deputy attorney general, argued that Dr. Napoleon considered prisoners unworthy of medical care.
Nine members of that unit were killed in action and five are considered prisoners of war.
Soldiers are considered prisoners of war, but their commander remains responsible for the unit.
When contractors are kidnapped, they aren't considered prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, and their capture rarely attracts significant media attention.
Because we used violence, the Moncadistas would not have been considered prisoners of conscience by today's humanitarian groups like Amnesty International.
Those policies -- which commanders were afraid to challenge -- left 97 untrained military police guarding some 7,000 Iraqis at Abu Ghraib who were not considered prisoners of war.
"We're still considered prisoners," said Mr. Zadrayel, who must follow a strict schedule of being at work and home that he submits a week in advance.
For a start, in adopting the report by Mr Agramunt and Mr Grech, the PACE resolution referred to the "systemic detention of people who may be considered prisoners of conscience".
The ecologists, Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera, who were considered prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, walked out of a jail in the town of Iguala, in Guerrero, shortly after noon.
