Confessions of a Financial Deregulator

The purpose was to obtain a confession and to stop him from being politically active.

After active verification, the case was classified as torture to obtain a confession.

In February 2002, TV1 showed the confessions of a man involved in the Memali incident.

His Government was well aware of its responsibility to address the protection and assistance needs of internally displaced persons and had developed a new and comprehensive policy draft on that subject, based on the United Nations guiding principles.

According to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, this problem has ostensibly been solved by means of extracted confessions.

Recording forced confessions of detainees is a very common practice in Syria, as a way to discourage others from joining the opposition.

The code of criminal procedure provides that a death sentence can only be enforced after the plea for pardon has been rejected.

Torture had been used to extract confessions from the persons arrested for murdering the head of the local authority in Sogd.

He told the news magazine Focus that he had witnessed several cases where Iranian children were tortured in the presence of their parents to extract confessions from them.

It also appeared that confessions occupied an important place in the system of evidence and that the police felt obliged to obtain confessions even through means of torture.

(f) The information collected on the treatment of prisoners is sufficient to support the conclusion that torture is used to extract confessions, at least in politically sensitive cases.

As in previous years, suspected supporters of independence for East Timor were subjected to torture and ill treatment in order to extract confessions or political intelligence. 43

Full confessions about AUC crimes are also promised, with former paramilitary fighters facing full retribution for withholding information.

In April 1993, reports were received that Abdollah Bagheri apos s videotaped confessions were broadcast on television in the Islamic Republic of Iran at the beginning of 1993.

In the author's case, the judge used the admissions (in fact accusations) of the alleged victim and ruled that for the same reasons as in the above mentioned judgement, these were not hearsay.

Counsel affirmed that the Court of Appeal apos s findings were based, on one hand, on the author apos s previous confessional statements, and, on the other hand, on his statement at the hearing that L. d.

Ms. Tene (Israel) assured Committee members that trafficking victims were not pressured into signing confessions but rather were allowed to stay in Israel and live in the best possible conditions.

Claims that further revelations could undermine Israel's national security were absurd, as no such damage had been identified since his revelations in 1986.

The ayatollah dictator and the Revolutionary Guards have tried their best to discredit their opponents by concocting, through forced confessions at show trials, a conspiracy of regime change based on a velvet revolution produced by Western social sciences.

The Government acknowledged that under the provisions of PTA a confession made to a police officer of a rank not lower than assistant superintendent of police may be admitted as evidence, provided that such confession was not made under threat, coercion or promise.

(13) The Committee is concerned about allegations of arbitrary arrests and detention, the excessive use of force by law enforcement officials, ill treatment of detainees in police custody and use of torture to extract confession from suspects.

However, these persons voluntarily returned to Uzbekistan before the request was fulfilled and they sent the Andijan district prosecutor a statement with a confession acknowledging their participation in the terrorist acts of 13 May 2005 in Andijan.

Iraq s Sunni vice president is a fugitive in Turkey, with multiple death sentences rendered against him for alleged terrorist activities, though the judgments were based on the confessions of bodyguards who had been tortured (one died during the investigation ).

He also noted the discovery of an extremely dangerous black market for nuclear technology, thanks to numerous verification activities by IAEA in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and following the admissions made by the Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.

In order to extract self incriminating statements or confessions, detainees are reportedly often ill treated and subjected to torture, including severe beatings with truncheons and metal clubs, as well as electric shocks on all parts of the body.

He was initially charged in October 2014, and has spent over a year in jail. He and co defendants reported experiencing extensive torture in detention, and were forced to sign confession letters.

The ayatollah dictator and the Revolutionary Guards have tried their best to discredit their opponents by concocting, through forced confessions at show trials, a conspiracy of regime change based on a velvet revolution produced by Western social sciences.

On 18 April 1994, with the Lebanese authorities having received no reply from Iraq, and as the confessions by the two diplomats had clearly pointed out Iraqi government involvement, Lebanon decided to sever its diplomatic relations with Iraq and ordered the closure of the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut.

When these same authorities decide on the need for pretrial detention, on continued detention in custody for investigation purposes and on the custodial regime to apply, discriminatory use is made of detention and the custodial system as forms of duress to punish, obtain confessions or make it easier to fabricate evidence.

That article specified the penalties against officials, including investigators, interrogators, prosecutors and other law enforcement personnel, for any mistreatment of criminal suspects, their family members or witnesses, aimed at eliciting information or confessions of a crime.

The grounds of appeal to the Court of Appeal were that (a) the trial judge had erred in not putting the accused's defence adequately to the jury, and (b) that the trial judge had erroneously admitted inadmissible evidence, i.e. an alleged involuntary confession.