• давать признательные показания – make a confession
• давать признательные показания – make a confessional statement
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Authorities have attempted to get him to make self-incriminating, forced confessionary statements. (amnesty.ca)
The defendant's evidence tends to show that he made the confessionary statements, both oral and in writing, on the officers' promises that the charge would be changed from murder in the first degree to murder in the second degree so that he could make bond and also escape the electric chair, which he knew was a penalty for first degree murder. (Justia › US Law)
Sanchez’s confession was read out to the court. (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)
The diplomat was released after his confessional statement, but Bangladesh is seeking to press charges. (The Mirror)
"Sheikh Selim was tortured repeatedly when he was on remand. At one stage he could not bear the pressure and agreed to give the confessional statement," his lawyer, Syed Rezaur Rahman, told the court. (BBC News)
