Confessions of a Financial Deregulator

Torture appears to be a common practice in order to secure confessions.

They may also have been convicted solely on the basis of confessions obtained under duress, torture or deception.

It is further reported that PTA allows confessions made under torture to be accepted as evidence against those arrested.

His Government did not allow the use of torture to elicit confessions or information and was preparing to criminalize such practices.

She said, I have defended more than a hundred people, and I've never had to do any investigation, because they all come with confessions.

Heads of four confessions (Islamic, Catholic, Orthodox and Jewish) formed the Inter Religious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as a form of mutual cooperation.

The religious confessions enjoy of the right to continue its religious ends freely, to possess and to acquire good for the materialization of its objectives.

The National Policy of Education and the strategies of intervention launch an appeal for involvement of social agents NGOs, Associations, Religious Confessions, and the Civil Society.

A similar case involving bid rigging in tenders for the construction of waste management systems was resolved in the same way, with voluntary confessions and reduced fines.

The Republic of Kazakhstan was a multiethnic and multicultural state, with some 130 ethnic groups, 45 religious confessions and numerous ethnocultural and linguistic groups living within its borders.

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.

Concerning the latter practice, international law clearly prohibits the use of coerced or involuntary confessions, as well as the use as evidence of any statement made as a result of torture.

Leading proponents of the SBS hypothesis now acknowledge that the triad is a myth, that SBS diagnoses consist of informed speculation, and that the hypothesis is supported solely by confessions. Some courts are following suit, with one US federal judge describing the types of confessions obtained as worthless as evidence, and another noting that, given recent developments, claims of SBS may be more an article of faith than a proposition of science.

These abuses violate both US and international law. Three former military attorneys, recognizing this blunt truth, refused to participate in the military tribunals rather, show trials aimed at condemning men whose confessions were elicited through torture.

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 Committee, while stressing the complex relationship between ethnicity and religion in Turkmenistan, notes with concern information that members of religious groups do not fully enjoy their rights to freedom of religion and that some religious confessions remain unregistered.

And we talked about, as a class, the fact that number one, the confessions might not be reliable, but number two, we did not want to encourage the police to keep doing this, especially as it was now against the law.

The Working Group recalls that confessions made to police officers in the circumstances described violate the principles of article 14 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, regardless of whether the legislation concerned is of an emergency nature.

Article 14 states that all persons have the right to be heard in public by an independent and impartial tribunal with the guarantees of a fair trial, which prevents the use of confessions made to police officers as elements of proof.

According to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, this problem has ostensibly been solved by means of extracted confessions. Of course, if the IST s aim is to evoke the possibility of show trials rather than bolstering the rule of law, Talabani is quite right problem solved.

In relation to China, many issues have been raised in relation to access of defendants to lawyers and the constraint placed upon and even harassment of defence lawyers by the authorities, as well as on the reliance on confessions, obtained by torture or other forms of intimidation, in obtaining convictions.

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 ). An arrest warrant has now been issued against the former finance minister, also a Sunni, on similar charges.

In the 1990s, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun caused a firestorm at home and in South Korea by publishing a series of articles, based upon testimony by the former Japanese soldier Seiji Yoshida, on comfort women Koreans forced to provide sexual services to the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. Asahi has now admitted that the soldier s confessions were unfounded, and has disavowed the core supporting evidence for the articles.