A/HRC/7/3/Add.1 page 91 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government response adoption of a confession is subject to the discretion of the judge. The judge decides whether he is convinced with the confession as a reliable evidence for conviction, or to disregard it if there is a legal justification. The judge’s competence to assess the value of a confession entails as well his competence to interpret it, define its significance and explore its motives. This principle applies whether the confession was judicial or non-judicial, whether it took place in the process of factual investigation, interrogation or even before a normal person. The judge does not rely on a confession if he is not convinced with it even in the case of the accused person insists on his confession. In such a case the judge may issue an acquittal and clarify in the causation why he did not take the confession into consideration. If it is proved that the confession was made under duress or coercion, it should be considered as invalid. But this does not prevent the court from taking other evidence to prove the accusation. In this respect, it is worthy to mention that the court judgment against the suspects took into consideration all the circumstances related to the facts according to the satisfaction of the court based upon the papers of the case, the investigations, the court sessions and the related hearings of witnesses and the written and verbal pleadings of the defence in order to clarify the facts, the elements of the crime and the provisions of the law applicable thereon. The courts considered, scrutinized and analyzed all the evidence of the crime including the related