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There is evidence, though, that some of the information Hamdan provided to his interrogators was extracted by coercion. According to Hamdan, the Northern Alliance soldiers hog-tied him with electrical wire, placed a hood over his head and turned him over to the Americans for a $5,000 bounty. At the U.S.'s Bagram air base, Hamdan was allegedly kept bound hand and foot 24 hours a day. During his early interrogations, he claimed that he was in Afghanistan working for a Muslim charity. But after another detainee identified him as bin Laden's driver, Hamdan confessed...
...defense, which will be laid out before the jury in coming days, Darwin is expected to maintain that she was coerced by her husband. The prosecution tried to subvert that claim in advance. "We submit this was a convincing performance and one which obviously required no prompting, let alone coercion, from her husband." Robertson said that the court would see in due course how the couple "worked a complex web of transactions between various bank accounts, making the finances all the more difficult to trace." For Mrs. Darwin's defense to succeed, Mr Robertson said that she must prove that...
...methods are no gentle wake-up call. India's Naxalites have taken to heart Mao Zedong's maxim that "the seizure of power by armed force, the settlement of the issue by war, is the central task and the highest form of revolution," killing and abducting enemies and using coercion and force to win support among the very same villagers they claim to be liberating. To protest state "exploitation," the Maoists regularly order farmers in their regions to stop growing food or to raise the sale prices for certain items. Farmers who defy such bans have been summarily executed...
...neighbouring African states, as well as Western powers, to create incentives for the next Zimbabwean “savior” not to end like this one. In Mugabe’s empire, Zimbabwe lives in arrested development: There is absolute official control of the public sphere, coercion of racial and cultural minorities, drowning of opposition voices, a reigning economic elite subjugating poor masses, and paranoid conspiracy theories about “Western imperialism.” It was not always like this...
Last November, the Physicians for Human Rights petitioned the Israeli High Court to rule on Shin Bet's "coercion" of Palestinians seeking medical care, but in January the court closed the file without a ruling. "What we're seeing is that the High Court is willing to intervene less and less in security cases," says Weingarten, who explained that was why the court had refused to rule on their petition. Shin Bet refused to comment on the case...