Examples of using Statements obtained in English and their translations into Spanish
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The statements obtained from two members of the High Council confirm that the ranking order was established by means of secret ballot.
Please also explain the procedures in place to ensure that admissible evidence is properly screened to remove statements obtained as a result of torture, and describe the training that judges,
because in a trial, statements obtained under torture were sometimes the only evidence of torture, and the Committee should
A judge who receives a complaint concerning statements obtained under duress should be instructed to examine in substance the lawfulness of such"evidence" without awaiting the outcome of a related procedure that is far too long.
court held statements obtained by torture to be invalid.
the Working Group concurs with the European Court of Human Rights that the admission of statements obtained as a result of torture
also establishes that statements obtained through violence are invalid and that whoever resorts to violence incurs responsibility therefore.
judges specifically mentions the prohibition against accepting confessions and/or statements obtained through torture or other ill-treatment.
Finally, although paragraph 140 of the report suggested that various regulations taken together indicated that statements obtained from a person through the use of torture could not be used as evidence against him, generalizations were not sufficient.
they claimed that the Home Secretary had based the decision to detain them on statements obtained through torture of detainees held by the United States.
by manufacturing statements obtained under torture and harassment.
Statements obtained through torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment shall not be admissible as evidence in a legal proceeding except in a legal action against a person or persons accused of having committed such acts, and only as evidence that those statements were obtained through such means.
The Court thus rejected the statements obtained under torture, on the basis of the provisions of article 14.3(g) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
He did not doubt that in practice statements obtained by torture were excluded from the evidence used in judicial proceedings,
which also stipulated that statements obtained through torture could not be used as evidence,
regarding the lack of an explicit rule which spells out the prohibition on the use of statements obtained by torture as evidence in proceedings,
In this regard, it would be important to consider whether the exclusion of evidence should be extended not only to confessions and statements obtained under torture, but also to all other pieces of evidence obtained through legal means
the public prosecutors with whom the Special Rapporteur met stated categorically that statements obtained by coercion are inadmissible, candid comments by one chief prosecutor of a State Security Court demonstrate the“loopholes” that do exist.
there were also no provisions prohibiting the admissibility as evidence of confessions or statements obtained under constraint. Were there plans to draft a text enabling confessions obtained following ill-treatment to be dismissed?
In the light of the previous concluding observations(para. 18), please provide information about any new legislation specifically prohibiting the use of statements obtained under torture as evidence as well as about cases where evidence obtained as a result of torture has been held admissible.