45. 四名被告表示，他们因遭受酷刑而招供，或被迫签署一份供词，但不知道其内容。第五名被告人没有在酷刑下招供，但据称利用从其他被告人强行获得的对他不利的供词作为证据对他定罪。被确定实施酷刑的人员，据称是刑事调查局或Jau 监狱调查部门的人员。据称，两名被告分别因为他们的宗教传统和政治观点而受到歧视。在五名被告中，有三名是未成年人，被关押在新干船坞监狱。另外两名是二十出头的年轻成年人，目前被关押在 Jau 监狱。
45. Four of the defendants have indicated that they confessed as a result of torture, or were otherwise forced to sign a statement, the contents of which were unknown to them. While the fifth defendant did not confess under torture, confessions against him forcibly extracted from the other defendants were reportedly used as evidence to convict him. The forces identified as perpetrating the torture were reportedly officers from the Criminal Investigations Department or from the investigations department at Jau prison. Two defendants reported being discriminated against because of their religious tradition and their political views, respectively. Three out of the five defendants are minors and being held in New Dry Dock prison, while the other two are young adults in their early twenties and currently incarcerated in Jau prison.