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The criminal justice system was about to enter years of agony and wrenching change as police wrongdoing was exposed, especially in the obtaining of confessions, and big terrorist convictions were overturned.

Mr. Rafsanjani, a powerful insider who has shown support for the opposition, harshly criticized the trial on Saturday, saying that "the obtaining of confessions from those who have recently been imprisoned," which formed the basis of the indictment, had thrown the basis of the country's entire government into question, according to a statement posted on the semiofficial Mehr news agency.

The obtaining of confessions from those who have recently been imprisoned has thrown the basis of Iran's entire government into question.

The ratification of the Bill of Rights did not end coercive methods of obtaining confessions, however in fact, it did not significantly affect state and local law-enforcement practices until the middle of the 20th century.

"Not only do we not accept the confession, we also know that Abtahi said these things due to a long period of imprisonment for the purpose of obtaining a confession," the statement said.

Over the years, he attacked the police over their way of obtaining confessions; and the judiciary for uncritically accepting police evidence.

On Friday, Mr. Conroy received a note from Jo Ann Patterson, whose son had been nearly suffocated in police custody in the process of obtaining a confession that proved to be false.

The letter also called for the detainees to be treated in accordance with Iran's constitutional guarantees against indefinite detention and the use of torture for obtaining confessions.

BEIJING — The top judicial and law enforcement bodies in China have issued new guidelines that seek to halt the use of torture in obtaining confessions or witness testimony, especially in death penalty cases.

This convention defines "torture" as any act which intentionally inflicts severe pain or suffering, physical or mental, with the intention of obtaining information, a confession or punishing an individual for something he or someone else has committed or is suspected of committing.

While it is true that many detectives were involved, a much smaller group of detectives obtained the confessions.