Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe treatment for asylum seekers. A vigorous campaign by refugee organisations in Ireland over the deaths in ‘direct provision’ asylum accommodation has led to the setting up of a working party to investigate the system and examine alternatives. What these campaigns emphasise is that these deaths are preventable. They are attributable to an inhumane system which denies dignity and hope. Like border deaths, these deaths at the heart of Europe must be counted, and accounted for,4 both in the sense of giving the dead names, faces, histories, but also in the sense of holding states accountable for them, as a first step to preventing future deaths. Notes 1. Of these, at least three are disputed, in that there are allegations that the deceased were beaten to death by guards. There is an additional death by overdose which we have not counted as suicide for lack of information. 2. This figure excludes the three disputed ‘suicides’ above. 3. This figure excludes the accidents and homicides in Norway referred to above. 4. See Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering: Globalisation of borders: death at the global frontier (2011). LIST OF DEATHS AUSTRIA SNAPSHOT: Austria’s use of police detention centres (PAZ) to hold migrants and asylum seekers along with criminal suspects was ended in 2014 following condemnation by the United Nations Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) and the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner, and a new, G4S-run dedicated immigration removal centre was opened.1 • Arslan Duzhiev (37), 11/08/2010 A Chechen asylum seeker, Duzhiev committed suicide in a deportation centre in Traiskirchen following the failure of three attempts to have his asylum claim dealt with in the country. Duzheiv had come to Austria via Poland earlier in 2010 after a ten-year ordeal, beginning with a brutal beating in 2000 in Dagestan, Russia by armed men in military camouflage, who abducted him. He was sent to prison, where he was unrecognisable to visiting relatives because of torture and beatings. Following his release he required lengthy medical treatment and then left Russia. The Austrian authorities detained Duzhiev and his family in a deportation centre for return to Poland under the Dublin Regulation.2 His repeated failures to overturn the decision left Duzhiev depressed, paranoid and fearful of being returned to Russia. He was found hanged by a rope in his cell.3 • Zelimkhan Isakov (35), 27/09/2012 Another Chechen asylum seeker, Isakov suffered a fatal heart attack in a deportation centre in Vienna. Isakov claimed to have spent two years in a Russian concentration camp where he had been tortured for taking part in the Chechen resistance. He was arrested in central Vienna for failing to produce identification documents to the police, and was detained and threatened with deportation to Russia despite an ongoing appeal against the refusal of asylum. In the detention centre, he had asked for medical help for pains in his chest and later all over his body for around two weeks, but received no medical attention as doctors believed he was lying to avoid deportation. On 17 March 2014, two doctors were charged with unintentional manslaughter and both were given 150-day prison sentences, later commuted to €150,000-euro fines.4 IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 7