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The law of evidence
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ISBN: 1552210383 Year: 1999 Publisher: Toronto Irwin Law

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Evidence (Law)


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The law of proof in early modern equity
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ISBN: 3428091981 9783428091980 Year: 1999 Volume: 20 20 Publisher: Berlin Duncker und Humblot

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Eid und Wahrheitssuche : Studien zu rechtlichen Befragungspraktiken in Mittelalter und früher Neuzeit
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ISBN: 3631344295 Year: 1999 Publisher: Frankfurt : P. Lang,

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Beweisverbote in Ländern der EU und vergleichbaren Rechtsordnungen : europäisches Kolloquium, Wien, 18.-20. September 1997
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ISBN: 3861139405 9783861139409 Year: 1999 Publisher: Freiburg im Breisgau Edition Iuscrim

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Het getuigenbewijs
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ISBN: 9054623322 Year: 1999 Volume: *2 Publisher: Gent Mys en Breesch


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Het bewijs in sociale zaken arbeidsrecht
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ISBN: 9054623683 9789054623687 Year: 1999 Volume: *3 Publisher: Gent : Mys & Breesch,

Tortured Confessions : Prisons and Public Recantations in Modern Iran
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ISBN: 0520922905 0585081263 0520218663 0520216237 9780520922907 9780585081267 9780520216235 9780520218666 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley, California : University of California Press,

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The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and public confession under the Islamic Republican governments. His study is based on an extensive body of material, including Amnesty International reports, prison literature, and victims' accounts that together give the book a chilling immediacy. According to human rights organizations, Iran has been at the forefront of countries using systematic physical torture in recent years, especially for political prisoners. Is the government's goal to ensure social discipline? To obtain information? Neither seem likely, because torture is kept secret and victims are brutalized until something other than information is obtained: a public confession and ideological recantation. For the victim, whose honor, reputation, and self-respect are destroyed, the act is a form of suicide. In Iran a subject's "voluntary confession" reaches a huge audience via television. The accessibility of television and use of videotape have made such confessions a primary propaganda tool, says Abrahamian, and because torture is hidden from the public, the victim's confession appears to be self-motivated, increasing its value to the authorities. Abrahamian compares Iran's public recantations to campaigns in Maoist China, Stalinist Russia, and the religious inquisitions of early modern Europe, citing the eerie resemblance in format, language, and imagery. Designed to win the hearts and minds of the masses, such public confessions--now enhanced by technology--continue as a means to legitimize those in power and to demonize "the enemy.".


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Catalogue des registres des tribunaux ottomans conservés au Centre des Archives de Damas
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ISBN: 2901315542 Year: 1999 Publisher: Institut Français de Damas,

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930.25 <569.1 DAMAS> --- Archiefwetenschap. Archivistiek--Syrië--DAMAS --- Court records --- Islamic courts --- Islamic law --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Arabic manuscripts --- Civil law (Islamic law) --- Law, Arab --- Law, Islamic --- Law in the Qurʼan --- Sharia (Islamic law) --- Shariʻah (Islamic law) --- Law, Oriental --- Law, Semitic --- Courts, Islamic --- Courts (Islamic law) --- Muslim courts --- Sharia courts --- Courts --- Records of court --- Archives --- Evidence (Law) --- Public records --- Manuscripts --- Sources --- Syria --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- History

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