On 27 September 1973, the “Vietnam Presse” agency published an article entitled “The International Red Cross approves the treatment of communist prisoners in South Vietnam”, mentioning a visit by the ICRC delegation in the Republic of Vietnam to the Chi-Hoa “correction centre” in Saigon. The ICRC delegation did indeed, on 14 June 1973, go to that institution built for the detention of several thousand detainees but, as “Vietnam Presse” admits, the delegation had access to only 83 prisoners of war (officially described as Vietnamese communist prisoners) who had been sentenced to imprisonment for penal law offences during their captivity in a prisoner-of-war camp. The delegation did not see any other detainees and was therefore unable to make any statement concerning their number or conditions of detention.