He noted that prosecutors and police authorities use sophisticated techniques to elicit confessions.
Mentions the use of torture to elicit confessions from people in custody.
Scores of innocent women have been illegally arrested and tortured in order to elicit confessions and boost prosecution rates.
The study notes that brutal techniques have been employed on many occasions to elicit confessions from drug traffickers — but also false confessions, from innocent civilians.
She adds that another tactic to elicit confessions involves stripping the accused's female relatives and threatening to gang-rape them in front of their loved ones.
The Times report documented numerous instances where jailhouse informants had elicited "confessions" that turned out never to have occurred, in exchange for a lighter sentence.
Most were eventually produced in court and many have provided sworn accounts, corroborated by doctors, of being tortured to elicit confessions that they were recruiting militants to overthrow Mr. Mugabe or were involved in bombing plots.
Khost, a mountainous border area where insurgents are active, was one of five provinces where human rights investigators found "compelling evidence" that intelligence agents employed torture to elicit confessions.
