Sentence examples for confess against from inspiring English sources

The two temporary editors were questioned in the National Security Agency and were deported along with their families after they had refused to confess against al-Jamri.

In this chilling documentary Bahari features five former Iranian prisoners who were hunted by intelligence forces and forced to confess against their uncommitted crimes before national TV.

Its guiding principles include one whereby confession to serious crimes by all parties entitles perpetrators to "alternative sentences" such as house arrest and community service, while failing to come forward to confess crimes against humanity is punishable by lengthy jail sentences.

Realizing that iron was more difficult to pierce with breech-loaded cannon, Armstrong designed rifled muzzle-loading guns, which proved successful; The Times reported: "even the fondest believers in the invulnerability of our present ironclads were obliged to confess that against such artillery, at such ranges, their plates and sides were almost as penetrable as wooden ships".

Executives who eventually escaped from the Hole have said that its occupants were forced to practice group confessions in which they would confess supposed transgressions against Miscavige, bad thoughts that they had had about Scientology and disclose their sexual fantasies.

The other three sailors did not confess, and charges against them were eventually dismissed.

"It was like a scene from Mao's cultural revolution when weeping intellectuals were forced to confess their crimes against the people".

They spent the next month torturing him, he said, twice trying to rape him to get him to confess to plots against the government.

It can set my teeth on edge, but it won't break me down and make me confess to crimes against humanity.

A special tribunal will try war-related crimes but those who confess to crimes against humanity will serve alternative sentences that do not involve jail time.

Other foreign citizens detained in North Korea have been forced to "confess" to crimes against the state and criticise their own governments, but have retracted their statements after their release.