Spy Confession

An Australian student who was briefly detained in North Korea last year over spy charges said he had been kidnapped by secret police and forced to make a false confession, according to an article written by him and seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

An Australian student arrested for spying and expelled from North Korea last year said he was forced to write a false confession while held incommunicado.

British academic Matthew Hedges said he had "no other option but to confess" during nearly seven months of detention in the United Arab Emirates on espionage charges.

The United Arab Emirates on Monday pardoned a British academic jailed for life on spying charges, granting his family's request for clemency minutes after showing a video of him purportedly confessing to being a member of Britain's intelligence agency MI6.

Kulbhushan Jadhav, sentenced to death for spying in Pakistan, has admitted espionage and filed a mercy petition with the chief of army staff, the Pakistan military said on Thursday, a statement India dismissed as a farce.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today began hearing India's appeal against its national Kulbhushan Jadhav's death sentence by Pakistan. Mr Jadhav, a former navy officer, was sentenced to death last month after being held guilty by a Pakistani military court of spying and subversive activities. The 46-year-old was arrested last March by Pak...

After Pakistan announced that it will execute an Indian arrested there last year on charges of espionage, India retaliated by deciding it will not release 12 Pakistani prisoners who were cleared to return home tomorrow.

Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian man arrested by Pakistan last year and accused of spying, was sentenced to death today, which set up a new flashpoint between the two countries. Describing Pakistan's proceedings against the former navy man as "farcical", New Delhi told Islamabad that if the sentence was carried out, it would be considered "premeditated...

Pakistan has denied media reports that its Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz said the evidence against Kulbhushan Yadav -- a former Indian Navy officer kept in detention for alleged spying -- is "insufficient".

Iran today warned Pakistan that some reports in Pakistani media linking the arrest of an alleged Indian 'spy' with Tehran could have "negative implications" on its bilateral ties.

The "video confession" of a former naval officer arrested on charges of espionage in Pakistan has been rejected by the government for having "no basis in fact". India has also raised the possibility of the man being abducted.

In the video, a man in an orange jump suit kneels beside a lake in Syria and confesses in Russian to spying on ISIS militants. Another Russian speaker, this one in camouflage fatigues, then uses a hunting knife to hack off the kneeling man's head.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a video on Monday showing three men purportedly confessing to spying for the Mauritanian and French military and then one being taken out of a pick-up truck in the desert and shot in the head.

One of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to federal agents that he worked for Russia's intelligence service, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.The revelation came on a day when several defendants in the case were making court appearances, even as authorities scoured a Mediterranean island for an alleged co-conspirator who disappe...

An Australian student who was briefly detained in North Korea last year over spy charges said he had been kidnapped by secret police and forced to make a false confession, according to an article written by him and seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

An Australian student arrested for spying and expelled from North Korea last year said he was forced to write a false confession while held incommunicado.

British academic Matthew Hedges said he had "no other option but to confess" during nearly seven months of detention in the United Arab Emirates on espionage charges.

The United Arab Emirates on Monday pardoned a British academic jailed for life on spying charges, granting his family's request for clemency minutes after showing a video of him purportedly confessing to being a member of Britain's intelligence agency MI6.

Kulbhushan Jadhav, sentenced to death for spying in Pakistan, has admitted espionage and filed a mercy petition with the chief of army staff, the Pakistan military said on Thursday, a statement India dismissed as a farce.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) today began hearing India's appeal against its national Kulbhushan Jadhav's death sentence by Pakistan. Mr Jadhav, a former navy officer, was sentenced to death last month after being held guilty by a Pakistani military court of spying and subversive activities. The 46-year-old was arrested last March by Pak...

After Pakistan announced that it will execute an Indian arrested there last year on charges of espionage, India retaliated by deciding it will not release 12 Pakistani prisoners who were cleared to return home tomorrow.

Kulbhushan Jadhav, an Indian man arrested by Pakistan last year and accused of spying, was sentenced to death today, which set up a new flashpoint between the two countries. Describing Pakistan's proceedings against the former navy man as "farcical", New Delhi told Islamabad that if the sentence was carried out, it would be considered "premeditated...

Pakistan has denied media reports that its Foreign Affairs Advisor Sartaj Aziz said the evidence against Kulbhushan Yadav -- a former Indian Navy officer kept in detention for alleged spying -- is "insufficient".

Iran today warned Pakistan that some reports in Pakistani media linking the arrest of an alleged Indian 'spy' with Tehran could have "negative implications" on its bilateral ties.

The "video confession" of a former naval officer arrested on charges of espionage in Pakistan has been rejected by the government for having "no basis in fact". India has also raised the possibility of the man being abducted.

In the video, a man in an orange jump suit kneels beside a lake in Syria and confesses in Russian to spying on ISIS militants. Another Russian speaker, this one in camouflage fatigues, then uses a hunting knife to hack off the kneeling man's head.

Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a video on Monday showing three men purportedly confessing to spying for the Mauritanian and French military and then one being taken out of a pick-up truck in the desert and shot in the head.

One of the suspects in an alleged spy ring has confessed to federal agents that he worked for Russia's intelligence service, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.The revelation came on a day when several defendants in the case were making court appearances, even as authorities scoured a Mediterranean island for an alleged co-conspirator who disappe...