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Cambodia still obtaining criminal confessions through torture: rights group

By Bernard Hibbitts (editor) and University of Pittsburgh School of Law students.

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[JURIST] A quarter of criminal defendants in Cambodian courts are tortured or coerced into giving confessions, a statistic that has not changed since last year, according to an annual report [PDF text] released Thursday by Center for Social Development (CSD) [advocacy website]. The report found that:Although duress is prohibited in Cambodia, CSD found a significant number of cases where

Full post as published by JURIST - The Paper Chase on March 21, 2008 (boomark / email).

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