Sentence examples for forms of physical coercion from inspiring English sources

Most authorities on interrogation, in and out of government, agree that torture and lesser forms of physical coercion succeed in producing confessions.

Among other things, this arrangement raised F.B.I. concerns that any suspects who might eventually be extradited to the United States for trial could claim that evidence developed against them in Yemen was obtained by torture or other forms of physical coercion, abuses of which the Yemeni security agency has been frequently accused in Western human rights reports.

Command systems utilize the open or veiled power of physical coercion or punishment, or the bestowal of wealth or prerogatives.

It was a collective failure, in which a number of officials and members of Congress of both parties played a part, endorsing a CIA programme of physical coercion".

Years of experience in interrogation have led them to doubt the effectiveness of physical coercion as a means of extracting reliable information.

Accusations are made of physical coercion, of smear campaigns against dissenters – and a 21-year-old, Elliott Johnson, apparently takes his own life.

Unlike 'sexual violence', which implies coercion through physical means, 'forced sex' can include sex that is unwanted but experienced because of psychological or other forms of non-physical coercion.

It should not come from induced fear, humiliation, shame, yelling or any form of physical or emotional coercion.

At no point are you offered the protection of the Geneva Conventions (to which your captors are a signatory), which were designed to prevent the "humiliating and degrading treatment" of prisoners seized during wartime, and also to prevent their interrogation (prisoners may be questioned, but any form of "physical or mental coercion" is prohibited).

We still don't know the extent of the physical coercion.

It has been suggested that quantitative measures may not adequately reveal the context surrounding intimate partner sexual aggression in general [ 10] and especially the subtle forms of non-physical sexual coercion [ 9].