[Infowarrior] - Detainees Drugged for Deportation

[Richard Forno]

big article from the wapo...........rf

Some Detainees Are Drugged For Deportation
Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason
by Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest | Washington Post Staff Writers
Page A1; May 14, 2008

The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has  
deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep  
them sedated during the trip back to their home country, according to  
medical records, internal documents and interviews with people who  
have been drugged.

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Involuntary chemical restraint of detainees, unless there is a medical  
justification, is a violation of some international human rights  
codes. The practice is banned by several countries where, confidential  
documents make clear, U.S. escorts have been unable to inject  
deportees with extra doses of drugs during layovers en route to  
faraway places.

Federal officials have seldom acknowledged publicly that they sedate  
people for deportation. The few times officials have spoken of the  
practice, they have understated it, portraying sedation as rare and  
"an act of last resort." Neither is true, records and interviews  
indicate.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/specials/immigration/cwc_day4_printer.html