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FOURTH SCHEDULE GENEVA CONVENTION RELATIVE TO THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIAN PERSONS IN TIME OF WAR
PART III.—STATUS AND TREATMENT OF PROTECTED PERSONS
Section III.—Occupied Territories
ARTICLE 67
The courts shall apply only those provisions of law which were applicable prior to the offence, and which are in accordance with general principles of law, in particular the principle that the penalty shall be proportionate to the offence. They shall take into consideration the fact that the accused is not a national of the Occupying Power.