The interrogators beat Yezhov's underlings into confessing that he had ordered them to beat confessions out of others.
Prosecutors use them to extract confessions from suspects and defense lawyers use them for leverage in plea bargains.
Prisoners are said to be tortured to force them to sign "confessions".The Uighurs are Muslims, so, as in Buddhist Tibet, there is a religious divide between the ethnic locals and the Han Chinese.
The six were accused of making false accusations that Libyan officials had tortured them to extract confessions in an investigation into H.I.V. infections at a children's hospital in Benghazi where they worked.
Cops also used them to elicit confessions.
Couch and others worried that men who were guilty and dangerous either had got away or couldn't be convicted, because the evidence against them was limited to confessions and accusations extracted during brutal interrogations.
"Authorities reportedly forced them to make false confessions before their release".
It makes new allegations and gives extensive details about the treatment they suffered, which led them to make false confessions about their involvement in terrorism.
The 20 doctors in Bahrain sentenced to up to 15 years in prison last week say their interrogators tortured them repeatedly to force them to make false confessions that Iran was behind the protests.
