Fred, Monaco police held Ted Maher for three days in four-point restraint, catheterized, sleep-deprived, threatened with the torture and strip-searching and indefinite detention of his wife, and unspecified harm to their children, until he signed their prepared false confession in French which he does not read, write or speak.
I was given the Stockdale, In Love and War, by my step-son, an otherly-surnamed graduate of the USNA Class of '94, and in it I believe the Admiral states we all broke; the point was to immediately begin resisting again.
The business of coercing confessions is sheer evil.