In Baghdad, American military officials said they had begun an investigation into the possible mistreatment of civilian detainees by six marines.

Like the military prisoners, civilians were subject to exchanges, and a bureau for the repatriation of civilian detainees was created at Bern in 1916.

Initially the camp held civilian detainees who were arrested at the outbreak of the war under a program called "Alien Enemy Control."

On at least one occasion, civilian detainees that were very suspicious had to be released because of improper processing.

The release of all civilian detainees and prisoners of war was agreed at the Paris talks but a number of practical difficulties impeded the process.

Our gravity control system is not perfected, and the lives of our 56,000 civilian detainees are in jeopardy.

However, the only mandate for what Op-Center euphemistically called "civilian detainees" was to survive.

During the Second World War he was captured in Malaya and served as a civilian detainee.

A two-member ministerial committee was to be established to investigate human rights issues, civilian detainees and missing prisoners of war.

The conventions protect prisoners of war, civilian detainees in wartime and others.