And today I read an article in a Japanese newspaper about an innocent woman who was detained for
two years, because an interpreter translated a word incorrectly. And, apparently, deliberately. It finally went to court after two years (one must wonder how this is possible..) and was aquitted (with a comment that translation is supposed to be accurate and faithful).
In the same article it was described how interpreters would believe that their job was to extract a confession. Recently an organization is trying to educate interpreters in ethics and what an interpreter's job actually is - to translate, and only translate.