But the suspects retracted those confessions, saying they were given under duress.

But two years later she changed her story saying her statements to gardaí were given under duress.

"But a promise given under duress is not valid in law."

Zaw Lin and Win Phyo, who were migrant workers, initially confessed but later retracted their statements, saying they were given under duress.

His team also argue that his guilty plea was given under duress after an "inexcusable" six years in Guantánamo Bay.

Medical charities operating in opposition-held parts of Syria have dismissed those statements as propaganda, given under duress now that government forces control the town.

Templars were burned at the stake for heresy by King Philip's agents after they made confessions that most historians believe were given under duress.

Can my consent, under such circumstances, even if given , be any thing but a forced consent, a consent given under duress, and therefore invalid?

Hotel worker Avinash Treebhoowoon says the confession he signed after the killing in January last year was given under duress, and has since retracted it.

"His Holiness the Pope will absolve you from all moral responsibility, for an oath given under duress is void."