In April 1971 Mr. Padilla was released after a month of brutal interrogation during which he was forced to make a humiliating 4,000-word 4,000-wordfession.
After a break in the interrogation, during which the young man was allowed to see his sister, he retracted his confession and maintained his innocence.
His confession came after hours of interrogation during which detectives lied to Mr. Tankleff, telling him that his mortally wounded father had identified his son as the attacker.
After a long interrogation during which he sat in silence, he received a list of 186 written questions from Mr. Carrillo.
Ahed's lawyer accuses the military of breaking the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child during her nighttime arrest and interrogation, during which she says Ahed was threatened.
Then, several hours into the interrogation, during which he said he wanted to go home and, at one point, curled into a fetal position on the floor, Mr. Hernandez opened up about a crime that had been unresolved for decades.
Four days of interrogation, during which he was prevented from sleeping, were followed by seven months in a police cell and 20 days in a reeducation camp in the city of Karamay, he said.
Earlier this summer, Thomas P. Galati, commanding officer of the New York Police Department's elite intelligence division, sat for an unusual legal interrogation, during which he talked of his keen interest in Urdu-speaking New Yorkers.
After 13 hours of interrogation, during which Mr. Sugaya says the police kicked his shins and shouted at him, he tearfully admitted to that murder and to killing two other girls.
