"Many countries had ambitions in the past," Dr. ElBaradei said, raising the prospect that, in theory, Iran, too, might "have to make certain confessions".
We're never quite sure who has and doesn't have a wife, who cheated with the other's spouse ("Her ardor was unparalleled," the supposed adulterer recalls) or whether certain confessions are fabricated.
An American Bar Association report, published in 1930, which was cited in a later U.S. Supreme Court decision, said, "It has been known since 1500 at least that deprivation of sleep is the most effective torture and certain to produce any confession desired".
The photographs of certain prisoners and the confessions conserved at Tuol Sleng are there to remind us of it".
Juvenile coerced confessions share certain hallmarks: use of intimidation, threats, promises of leniency, and outright lies, so that the youth feel their only way out is by confessing.
The relative absence of women in the list of directors is, however, pretty dismal: the competition is an all-male affair, and there are just two women film-makers in Un Certain Regard: Sylvie Verheyde, with Confession of a Child of the Century, and Catherine Corsini, with Three Worlds.
No matter what the lines on the chart look like, nothing is more certain or damaging than your confession.
The commissions have been criticized as favoring military prosecutors and for permitting the use of evidence that would not be allowed in American courts, including certain types of hearsay and confessions obtained through coercion.
"It [Kasper's proposal] is being talked about as a form of not recognising the second marriages of divorced and remarried Catholics, but simply looking past them, of tolerating them, and allowing those individuals who are Catholics under certain circumstances … to go to confession and subsequently to go to communion on a regular basis.
A few years back, he admitted to certain right-wing sympathies – no shocking confession if you work in, say, banking, but catastrophic if you're an idol to rebellious teenagers.
