In late 2006, all the seven key accused in the Mumbai train blasts in July retracted their alleged confession to the police, saying they were illegally forced to sign blank papers, an Indian TV channel reported.

Just last month, Sears pleaded guilty to Federal changes that it had illegally forced card holders who had filed for personal bankruptcy to pay their Sears debt anyway.

The former Panamanian dictator's lawyers contend that he was illegally forced to come to the United States to face drug charges.

He reported that agents routinely skimmed goods from stores purchased with Indian annuity money and that Native people were illegally forced to pay for food out of their treaty money, while the agents ate for free.

Sergeant Perry Speelman, and Officers Tab Davis and Jesse Campion stopped two men in 2009 and subjected them to a barrage of racial insults after they were illegally forced from their car.

Last February, it pleaded guilty to federal changes that it had illegally forced cardholders who had filed for personal bankruptcy to pay their Sears debts anyway.

The abuse of strikebreakers was so severe that the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Labor held hearings on whether the coal companies had illegally forced people into peonage.

Staff, BBC 2003, Inside Out, BBC, 20 January 2003, "After being forced to camp illegally for years, Brighton Council are the first to introduce a legal site for New Age Travellers".

"President Aristide was forced from office illegally by force of arms," she continued.

The three Baltic republics have maintained that since they were illegally forced into the Soviet Union, they should be allowed to use any method they choose in leaving.