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The cases were based on confessions.

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights maintained that the sentences were based on confessions extracted under torture and the testimony of the alleged torturers.

The panel's final report, issued Sunday, detailed the failings of the government's investigation, saying it was based on confessions obtained by torture.

The charges are based on confessions from his guards who said that he personally paid them for attacks, but these allegations may well have been extracted by torture or the threat of it.

Mohamed says that evidence against him is based on confessions obtained by torture at the hands of U.S. officials and allies in "secret prisons" in Morocco and Afghanistan and later in Guantanamo.

Lisa Hajjar, author of Courting Conflict, says that most convictions in military courts are based on confessions.

Some lawyers of Palestinian detainees note that over 90percentt of all convictions of Palestinians are based on confessions.

There is no way to guess how many convictions in the past were based on false confessions.

Meanwhile, groups like the Center on Wrongful Convictions and the Innocence Project were publishing statistics on wrongful convictions and found that a considerable proportion were based on false confessions.

Gogeaskoetxea's lawyers had fought against his extradition to Spain, arguing that he faced a real risk of "a flagrant denial of justice" in the country because the accusations against him were based on the confessions of a co-defendant who was allegedly denied proper access to a lawyer.

Their convictions were based on an error-riddled confession by Mr. Misskelley, who later recanted, and testimony about satanic cults.