Mr. Yu was under a kind of detention called shuanggui, an opaque process under which, the report said, "Party and government officials are asked to confess to wrongdoings at stipulated times and places for serious violations of Party discipline and State laws".
Many of his erstwhile friends and associates have already confessed to wrongdoing.
As worrying is that banks are being discouraged from confessing to wrongdoing or sharing concerns with regulators.
Unlike their counterparts in Asia, however, sectarian and secular authorities in Europe rarely extended leniency to those who confessed to wrongdoing.
Boy, this guy is a real criminal," Mr. Armisen says, to which Mr. Meyers responds that Mr. Paterson himself has confessed to wrongdoing — a reference to the governor's admissions of past cocaine use and marital infidelity.
An imprisoned Chinese journalist whose newspaper has made front-page appeals for his release has confessed to wrongdoing on state TV.
North Korean state media said that he had confessed to wrongdoing, and that he was treated well in custody, being allowed diplomatic contact and family phone calls.
The research suggests that if you want a child to confess to a wrongdoing, you should reassure them that they won't be in trouble for confessing and tell them that telling the truth would make you happy.
A daunting but integral component of Yom Kippur, however, is that observers confess to their own wrongdoing and assume responsibility for the offenses of society -- even humanity -- as a whole.
Falsely confessing to random wrongdoing — swearing at their superiors, throwing out medication — results in milder punishment, so Jin-man and Si-bong learn to game the system: Si-bong admitted to cursing the caretakers again and was beaten repeatedly in the thighs with a steel pipe.
