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    ARTICLE 118

    The courts or authorities shall in passing sentence take as far as possible into account the fact that the defendant is not a national of the Detaining Power. They shall be free to reduce the penalty prescribed for the offence with which the internee is charged and shall not be obliged, to this end, to apply the minimum sentence prescribed.
    Imprisonment in premises without daylight, and, in general, all forms of cruelty without exception are forbidden.
    Internees who have served disciplinary or judicial sentences shall not be treated differently from other internees.
    The duration of preventive detention undergone by an internee shall be deducted from any disciplinary or judicial penalty involving confinement to which he may be sentenced.
    Internee Committees shall be informed of all judicial proceedings instituted against internees whom they represent, and of their result.

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