Previous sessions have included confessions by prominent reformists whose friends and relatives said they had been coerced through torture.
The trouble is that in too many cases women are being caught in cycles of violence, coerced through trafficking, abusive relationships, addiction, and poverty.
The juxtaposition belies the courtroom video, making the point that the only genuine thing about Abtahi's confession is that it was coerced through torture.
All but three of the others were in state security court, including Mr. Shalouf's, whose January 2011 conviction was based mainly on a confession that his lawyer said was coerced through torture.
That latter term is especially galling, since my ancestors in the Carolina lowcountry were coerced through forced labor and with the threat of physical punishment to provide every iota of value from their expertise in rice culture and cuisine to their white owners; it was hardly a gift.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — A day after Iranian authorities began a mass trial of more than 100 government opponents, state television broadcast a chilling segment in which two defendants — both prominent reform figures — said they had "changed" since being arrested, and disputed widespread claims that their publicized confessions had been coerced through torture.
So in order for prospective organ purchasers to be coercing through poverty, they must be responsible for the poverty.
Cases of nonconsensual but unforced sex, on the other hand, include those in which the victim is induced to have sex through fraudulent misrepresentation (for instance, a doctor telling her that sex with him is necessary for her cure), and those in which she is coerced through nonviolent means (for instance, a professor telling her that she must have sex with him to pass the course).
The only evidence admitted in court was a videotape of a confession obtained in a Saudi Arabian prison -- a confession that my brother maintained was coerced through torture.
It's a situation in which even longtime LGBT activists may be corrupted or coerced through old Soviet tactics designed to destroy their reputations and diminish their influence.
