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.
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