21.   The government says the new law provides for suspects to give testimony before a magistrate so that police do not force confessions out of them using coercive methods.

22.   The government says the law provides for suspects to give testimony before a magistrate so that police do not force confessions out of them using coercive methods.

23.   The seven co-defendants, who included a Christian, have insisted they were innocent and said police forced confessions through torture.

24.   The seven co-defendants have insisted they were innocent and that police forced confessions through torture.

25.   When his trial opened Monday, Ranisavljevic denied the charges of war crimes against civilians, saying an earlier confession was forced out of him.

26.   Defence lawyers charged that police had forced confessions from six of their clients, the agency said Saturday.

27.   Many then claim police forced confessions out of them under torture, lawyers say.

28.   Police in Cyprus regularly used a torture chamber to force confessions from suspects, a government-appointed board of inquiry said in a report published here Saturday.

29.   Prosecutors demanded the death penalty against all five, while the defense called for acquittal, saying confessions were forced from the accused by torture.