Reading Room Document

Voluntary Departure from Occupied Territory

This opinion concludes that Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions only prohibits "deportation" and does not prohibit the "voluntary relocation" of a protected person from occupied Iraq. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at https://justice.gov/olc/docs/aclu-ii-071604.pdf.

July 16, 2004