Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe of non-Norwegian citizens in their public records. Under pressure from the UNHCR, it seems that the deaths have been noted, but details of the identities or causes not released. It is believed that at least four of the deaths were suicides, three were homicides, and two died as a result of accidents. No further information is available about any of these deaths.100 • Unidentified man (31), 11/09/2014 A South Sudanese asylum seeker committed suicide by throwing himself off the roof of Bergen prison. The man had allegedly attempted suicide when his asylum claim was rejected, and had then ‘run amok’ and killed three passengers on a bus. Despite the fact that he was diagnosed with psychosis after the killings, he was held in prison, not in a psychiatric hospital, and was considered fit to stand trial. He was in the middle of a conversation with two psychologists and three prison guards in Bergen Prison when he threw himself off the roof, dying two weeks later in hospital. His death led to calls by several psychiatrists for patients to be held for longer in psychiatric wards, and for an examination of the treatment of mentally ill defendants.101 SPAIN SNAPSHOT: Spain’s migrant detention centres are run by the police and were not regulated centrally until two deaths within weeks in 2012 forced the government to intervene. However, the regulations promulgated were condemned for failure to remedy a shocking situation, in which even basic information about detention facilities (mainly old prisons and barracks) was lacking, no minimum standards set out for treatment of detainees, failure to investigate complaints of ill-treatment, and a culture of neglect and impunity. Denial of health care to undocumented migrants has more recently become the subject of a strong campaign.102 • Mohammed Abagui (22), 13/05/2010 A Moroccan asylum seeker died in the Zona Franca aliens’ detention centre in Barcelona, described by its inmates as the ‘Guantánamo of Spain’. The authorities said that Abagui committed suicide after being put in solitary confinement pending his deportation. The facts surrounding his death are obscure, with some countering the authorities’ claim Aramis Manukyan, an Armenian asylum seeker, was found dead in his cell in the Zona Franca detention centre in Barcelona in December 2013. IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 21

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