NORWAY: Asylum seeker forcibly injected
01 September 1994
A Norwegian police officer was acquitted by a court in Oslo on 11 October after he had been charged with forcibly injecting an asylum seeker from Gambia with 50 milligrams of the strong sedative Nozinan.
The officer who was to accompany the asylum seeker back to Gambia on the plane was given the sedative by the police physician. The police physician had already given the asylum seeker one 50 milligram injection of the same sedative at the airport. The second dose was forcibly injected just before entering the plane by the police officer with the help of four other officers who held the asylum seeker on the ground.
The police physician was fined 5,000 Norwegian kroner last year for forceful medication and for giving another dose to the police officer. The police officer was also fined 5,000 kroner but successfully appealed against the sentence.