A PRISONERS' CHARTER
Sta,—May I support Dr. Gilbert Murray's plea for the creation of 3 "Prisoner's Charter " as part of the Covenant of any International Organisation that may be set up? As Dr. Murray says, the treatment of political prisoners in many parts of the world has been appalling. It should contain some such -provisions as the following:
(z) The formal denunciation by the United Nations of any such camps, by whatever name they are called.
(2) The setting up of appropriate courts of enquiry or investigation committees to inspect any place where political prisoners art interned.
(3) The punishment of any found guilty of atrocities.
(4) The creation of a permanent commission for the defence of individual human rights, which would supervise the work of courts of enquiry, and protect all political prisoners.
The acceptance of some such system should be made a condition of membership in the security organisation.—Yours obediently,
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