Immigration / Customs is injecting deportees with Haldol, Cogentin

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Link to article:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/12/doping.immigrants/index.html

Soeoth and Diouf, two Indonesians whose political asylum pleas were rejected, were drugged while being deported, and evidently it's part of a larger systematic abuse. Very nice.

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ACLU attorney Ahilan Arulanantham, who is representing Soeoth and Diouf, said, "It would be torture to give a powerful anti-psychotic drug to somebody who isn't even mentally ill. ... But here, it's happening on U.S. soil to an immigrant the government is trying to deport."

Julie Myers said 1,073 immigration detainees had "medical escorts" for deportation since 2003.

From October last year to the end of April this year, she said 56 received psychotropic medications during the removal process. Of those, 33 detainees received medication "because of combative behavior with the imminent risk of danger to others and/or self," she said.

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Diouf says he was injected on the plane right before he was to be deported. He said he even had a federal stay of his deportation -- and the paperwork to prove it -- but his U.S. government escorts wouldn't let him show it to the pilot of the plane preparing to fly him out of the country. See Diouf's stay of deportation document

That's when, he says, "I was wrestled to the ground and injected through my clothes."

A government report says he was medicated because he did not follow orders.

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There's even a link to the actual stay of deportation document.
Wow, great. Political asylum seekers given antipsychotics for no reason whatsoever. Go u s a.


(on edit : moved link to article to the top of the page)