A. Repatriation under pressure or duress

By reason of duress and threats

Moreover, repatriation has frequently involved various forms of pressure or duress.

The civilian defendants were released because their testimonies had been made under duress.

Confessions obtained under duress were said to have been used as evidence in court.

31. Eleven defendants claimed they had been subjected to torture, ill treatment or duress.

Furthermore, any commitments or statements relating to such property made under duress should be null and void.

It can be arbitrary because it is based solely on information extracted under torture or other duress.

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

(ii) That has been improperly issued or obtained through misrepresentation, corruption or duress or in any other unlawful manner or

After hearing the author, the judge also heard the police officers, who denied that the statement had been given under duress.

I wanted to try it in the most extreme situations to see if I could slow my heart rate down under duress.

After hearing the author, the judge also heard Magistrate Goodwill, Sergeant Hart and Corporal Brown, who denied that there had been duress.

In the words of a well known Venezuelan politician, the Assembly will now almost certainly adopt that document under duress and while holding its nose.

The judgement reflects that the author made before the judge a long and detailed statement of the facts concerning his detention and confession under duress.

Nebih Tahiri made a general statement that he had been coerced into making his statement and Ragip Berisa said he had done so under duress .

Just as significantly, there is a risk that this information could be extracted under duress for example, by threats against a solicitor apos s family.

Both men were reportedly convicted on the basis of a written confession by Noel Thomas, allegedly made under duress, and an oral confession by Abdool Yasseen.

Other more appropriate solutions urgently need to be found, therefore, in order to put an end to repatriation of this nature when it takes place under duress.

According to the information received, the defendants confessed under duress and their trial was characterized by numerous violations of the right to a fair trial (29 December 1995).

In this context, reference is made to the trial within the trial which was conducted to determine whether the author apos s statement had been procured under duress.

The State party should proceed to the necessary amendments of its Criminal Procedure Code and prohibit the use of evidence obtained in violation of the law, including under duress.

If there is credible evidence that statements were extracted under torture or duress, the allegations should be properly investigated and the statements concerned should not be admitted in evidence.

(a) The Government should promptly order an impartial investigation into the claims of defendants and their lawyers that statements relied upon by the prosecution were extracted under torture or duress.

Given the duress that we're feeling environmentally in these times, it is time for scientists to reach outward, and time for those outside of science to reach towards academia as well.

The Act provides detailed procedures for examination and hospitalization of a patient without his or her approval (making them subject to judicial inspection), and also concerning the employment of direct duress.

Decisions by judges to reject confessions made under duress would send a clear signal that the use of force to get confessions is not acceptable and is subject to criminal prosecution.

The court, however, is not known to have investigated this or other allegations by Besim Rama that his statement had been obtained through torture or duress, as required by the Convention against Torture.

He added that all his statements to the police had been made under duress and threats and that medicines had had to be provided to him to help him recover from police torture.

Many of the thumbprints appeared to have been given under duress and often the person taking the thumbprints was the village chief, commune chief, member of the local militia or other local official.

Very often police officers had allegedly used force during interrogations in order to obtain confessions, which were regarded as prime pieces of evidence, particularly as Romanian legislation did not invalidate confessions obtained under duress.

As I said, I respect other sports, and I compare this sport sometimes to cycling and to mountain climbing and other of the expedition type events, but this is a sensory deprivation, a physical duress.

9. Where return takes place under different kinds of pressure or duress, UNHCR may in some cases have no choice but to resort to the best available means of ensuring the safety of those concerned.

In addition, the Special Rapporteur sent an urgent appeal on behalf of Sergey Gennadiyevich Tekuchev and Maksim Georgiyevich Artsyuk, who were allegedly sentenced to death on the basis of confessions obtained under duress (27 February 1996).

(h) If the impartial investigation into the allegations of torture, ill treatment or duress described in this report confirms that these methods have been used, the Government should ensure that those responsible are brought to justice.

This began with the arrival in court, on June 13, 1950, of Giuliano's memoir, in which he stated that all the picciotti were innocent, and that their declarations to the police offiicers had been made under duress.

Pietro Locullo and Giuseppe Sapienza, son of Francesco, of the charge of complicity in the massacre at Portella della Ginestra, as they acted under duress to avoid real danger and in fear of serious harm to themselves.

The Committee deplores the apparent routine acceptance by trial court judges of confessions extracted under duress, even when there is medical evidence of torture, and calls on the State party to take all necessary measures to redress this situation.

But that is what the British government is doing now. How is the possibility that a government might be forced into radical fiscal consolidation an argument for taking that step immediately, under no duress and before the recovery is well established?

In this case, most defendants retracted in court the statements which they had previously made, often without having received legal advice, before the investigative judge, on the grounds that their statements had been extracted under torture, ill treatment or duress.

In the Erdemovic case, the Appeals Chamber established the preconditions for the acceptance of a guilty plea and, by majority, found that duress cannot afford a complete defence under international law to a soldier charged with the killing of innocent persons.

These approaches will not depend on household subsidies, but rather will encourage community based approaches for total sanitation' that seek to eliminate the practice of open defecation, while enabling the poorest, including female headed households, to build their toilets without undue duress.

In the same period, two cases of the crime of extraction of a statement under duress and five cases of the crime of mistreatment through the misuse of office were registered and criminal proceedings against the police officials involved are taking place.

15.8 States shall not recognize as valid any housing, land and or property transaction, including any transfer that was made under duress, or which was otherwise coerced or forced, either directly or indirectly, or which was carried out contrary to international human rights standards.

29. Many defendants, when brought to court, retracted the statements which they had made previously before the investigative judge, on the grounds that had been forced to make them because they had been tortured, ill treated or had been subjected to other forms of duress.