On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, J. van Baardwijk wrote: > >BBC reports the prisoners had portable urinals. Secretary of > >Defense Donald Rumsfeld says that one person, not all, was sedated. > > The news report I saw did not say the prisoners *were* sedated, only that > their guards were *allowed* to sedate them if they deemed it necessary.
Granted. I haven't read the Geneva Convention lately, but I wonder if it grants nations' prison guards permission to sedate prisoners who pose an immediate threat to themselves or others? In other words, I wonder if "being allowed to sedate them if they deemed it necessary" is pretty much standard. The question then would be what guidelines exist for determining whether or not sedation is necessary or permissable. (And if those guidelines are acceptable, and if the guards actually follow them.) Marvin Long Austin, Texas
