Confession forced: doctor
NZPA Paris A French doctor, Philippe Augoyard, freed late last year from an eight-year jail sentence in Afghanistan, said yesterday that the Afghan authorities had forced him to make a confession during his trial and promised him a pardon in return.
“According to a sort of contract, I was supposed to speak in favour of the Afghan regime to avoid being subject to Afghan law,” Dr Augoyard told a news conference in Paris. “The questions were written and so were the answers. I was forced to say many false things,” he said. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in Kabul in March for spying, entering the country illegally, and aiding counter-revolution-aries, after a televised trial in which he read out a formal confession.
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Press, 14 June 1983, Page 9
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