61.   Defense attorneys for the two defendants, Rabi Soren and Thoram Ho, told the court that investigating police had pressured them to make the confessions.

62.   Eugen Jurca, a professor at the Orthodox Theology Faculty in the western city of Timisoara, made the confession in a letter published in two newspapers.

63.   Exiled Iraqi opposition groups claim that imprisoned dissidents are forced to make confessions.

64.   Gartman had confessed to the crime and implicated three other defendants, but he said Tuesday that he had made the confession after being promised a light sentence.

65.   He made his confessions to state prosecutors Tuesday, the officials said.

66.   He is applying for amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which has the power to grant amnesty to applicants who make full confessions to political crimes.

67.   He made his confessions to state prosecutors Tuesday.

68.   He made his confessions to state prosecutors Tuesday, they said.

69.   His commission can grant amnesty to people who make full confessions of apartheid-era crimes, but it has rejected some applications.

70.   Human Rights Watch charged that in many cases police torture defendants into making confessions and that others are falsely incriminated by torture victims.