61.   Reports of police beating suspects to extract confessions are common in Cyprus, but the report was the first to show torture being systematically used by police.

62.   Salih himself is eventually tracked down by police and also tortured to extract a confession for his attack.

63.   Saudi law banned what the country considered to be torture, mistreating suspects to extract confessions, for example, the delegation said.

64.   The defendants claim that earlier confessions were extracted through torture and the judge is reviewing a defense request for full access to prosecution evidence.

65.   The defendants claim that confessions were extracted through torture.

66.   The defendants have pleaded innocent and some have complained their interrogators extracted confessions using torture, including electric shocks and beating.

67.   The defendants have pleaded not guilty and some have complained their interrogators extracted confessions using torture, including electric shocks and beating.

68.   The human rights group Betselem and other groups have said that Palestinian detainees are routinely deprived of sleep, tied in painful positions and severely beaten to extract confessions.

69.   The lawyer said he believed the confession was extracted by force and that he planned to contest it.

70.   The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights said the prisoners were beaten and tortured to extract confessions of rebel links.