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89:, upon which he was restrained. A doctor then forcibly injected John with the emetic through a tube into his nose. An anesthesiologist was not present to help John in case of an emergency. Then he fell to the ground. The color of his face had changed, breathing and pulse had stopped. After three minutes, two teams of emergency doctors tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate John. John died on December 12, 2001.
118:. The court stated that with regard to human dignity and freedom from self-incriminations the use of emetics did not meet any fundamental constitutional concerns. However, an assessment with regard to the protection of physical integrity and the proportionality of the intervention was not made. The compulsory use of emetics to secure evidence in case of ingested drugs was introduced in 2001 by the then
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forcibly administered by police. Four days earlier, Achidi John had been forcibly administered an emetic to secure evidence of suspected drug trafficking against him. At the political level, the case led to a stop of emetics in Berlin and Lower Saxony. In Bremen, the Greens applied to end the
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In July 2000, in the town of Jena, the
Nigerian Michael Paul Nwabuisi applied for asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany. He pretended to be a Cameroonian citizen with the name "Achidi John", born on January 6, 1982. The authorities assigned Achidi John to shared accommodation in
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Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in July 2003, The case was listed in the 2002
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European Court of Human Rights to compensation of 10,000 euros for the use of emetics for violating the prohibition of torture and inhumane treatment.
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