Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe of suicide, claiming Abagui was beaten by guards, who have a reputation for brutality.103 • Mike, Sonsha and Sony, 25/03/2011 Three migrants from Ghana and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa died in a fire in their shack in the Spanish north African enclave of Melilla. The shack, near the Migrants’ Temporary Centre, was one of many occupied by migrants waiting in limbo for three years or more for regularisation, to enable them to move to mainland Spain. It is believed that the fire was caused by a fallen candle.104 • Samba Martine (34), 19/12/2011 A Congolese asylum seeker detained in the Aluche centre, Martine was taken to a hospital in Madrid where she died of AIDSrelated meningitis. In the weeks before her death, Martine had been to the centre’s health clinic ten times complaining of persistent headaches, flu, chest pains, coughing and other symptoms associated with the HIV virus. She had been provided with a interpreter only once, despite speaking no Spanish, and had not been tested for HIV. Martine’s mother brought a case of medical negligence, but the court dismissed the claim, ruling that doctors were not obliged to carry out HIV tests. On appeal, evidence emerged that Martine had tested positive for the virus in a temporary detention centre in Melilla two months before her transfer to Madrid, but the test results had not been sent on to the Aluche detention centre.105 • Idrissa Diallo (21), 06/01/2012 An undocumented migrant from GuineaConakry, Diallo died in the Zona Franca detention centre in Barcelona after complaining of chest pains. Fellow detainees claim that guards within the centre delayed in seeking medical help, and say there is no twenty-four hour medical facility at the centre, only twice weekly visits by a doctor.106 • Aramis Manukyan (32), 03/12/2013 An Armenian asylum seeker, Manukyan was found dead in his cell in the Zona Franca detention centre, Barcelona, where he had been in solitary confinement for twelve days. Guards claimed that Manukyan hanged himself by his shoelaces, but fellow detainees say that he was taken out of his cell and beaten before being locked up again, and claim to have heard groans and cries for help from his cell. A legal adviser also queried the guards’ account. When his fellow detainees began a hunger strike in protest, two detainees who had been in neighbouring cells were deported. A campaign was launched, supported by several Spanish NGOs, to stop other potential witnesses being deported pending a proper investigation.107 • Alpha Pam (28), 24/04/2013 A Senegalese undocumented migrant, Pam was found dead of untreated tuberculosis at his house in Majorca, in a pool of his own blood. Pam, who had been seeking medical treatment for six months, had been refused on at least seven occasions because of his undocumented status. After it was clear that he was very ill, he was finally seen for five minutes for a check-up after signing a guarantee of payment slip. Pam’s was the first death to be imputed to a new law which resulted in the withdrawal of the health cards of nearly 900,000 undocumented migrants on 1 September 2012, barring them from nonemergency health care. Médicos del Mundo subsequently launched a campaign, ‘Right to care’, mobilising health care professionals, doctors and ordinary citizens to defend the principle of universal health care.108 Alpha Pam, a Senegalese undocumented migrant, died of untreated tuberculosis in Majorca. IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 22