Sentence examples for given under duress from inspiring English sources

Though he confessed, he later said that the confession was given under duress.

Indeed, he later told me that his statements to Ernst & Young about Sanea misusing his position of trust had been given under duress.

Later, according to Mr. Astakhov, Professor Babkin said the statement had been given under duress just before the first of two heart attacks.

American officials and Mr. Pope's lawyer have asserted that key evidence was given under duress, and that key witnesses recanted all or part of their testimony.

On Wednesday, Sentsov reminded the court that the main witness for the prosecution, Gennady Afanasyev, retracted his testimony in court, saying it was given under duress.

But the judges dismissed the defence argument that Bo's initial testimony was given under duress and that his wife Gu Kailai's evidence was inadmissible due to mental illness.

Mr. Salim's lawyers say that a statement Mr. Salim gave to German and American authorities after his arrest should not be allowed in court, contending that it was given under the duress of sleep deprivation and mistreatment.

Medication is given, often under duress, with the aim of safely and swiftly making the patient less agitated and hostile.

While there is no reason to believe that the F.B.I. men used any illegitimate methods, it is true that they took these statements in circumstances that did not protect them from the charge that the defendants gave them under duress.

They used that data to leverage Hiroshima into giving them — under duress — his low-character-count Twitter user name @N.

North Korea typically frees foreign detainees after they've admitted their crimes, but many say after their release that their confessions were given involuntarily and under duress.