Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe situation that he committed suicide’. The Left party (Die Linke) raised Lama’s death in parliament, and his lawyer filed a complaint against two officials in the Gifhorn Aliens’ Office, but the local authority denied responsibility for his death.39 • Unidentified man (22), 13/08/2011 An Iraqi asylum seeker was found hanged near the General Henke Barracks (a former military barracks turned into an asylum accommodation centre) in Neuwied, Rhineland. An autopsy found that, although his hands were tied behind his back, his death was suicide, and no foul play was suspected. He had previously threatened suicide.40 • Michael Kelly (37), 17/09/2011 A Liberian asylum seeker, Kelly was found dead in his room in the Gerstungen refugee camp in Thuringia, after residents became aware of the smell of decomposition. Kelly died of pneumonia. He had been in hospital between 19 June and 7 July, but after his health improved he was sent back to the camp, which is known to be very unsanitary, with mould on the walls causing and aggravating respiratory problems. Residents blame the staff camp for negligence, highlighting their failure to discover the body earlier.41 • Unidentified man (36), 21/10/2011 An Algerian asylum seeker committed suicide by setting his prison cell on fire. He had attempted to claim asylum in Denmark, Finland and Norway before going to Germany, where the authorities discovered that he was wanted in the United Kingdom for an unknown offence. He was placed in immigration detention, and then transferred to a prison in Neumünster to await extradition to the UK. Fellow detainees say that prison staff took ten minutes to respond to the alarm they activated when they heard the man’s screams. The prison management deny all accusations and claim to have been unaware of his suicidal intent, which detainees say they had known.42 • Unidentified asylum seeker (63), 03/12/2011 Ten months after the death of a 10-year-old boy (see above), a Serbian asylum seeker died after being hit by a train in Braunschweig (Lower Saxony). He had moved from Dortmund to the Boeselagerstraße refugee camp, and was crossing the railway track on his way from the camp to the supermarket. Asylum seekers must cross this railway track in order to access the shops and town, and camp residents claim that there are no barriers and that the warning bells frequently do not work. Deutsche Bahn, the company responsible for the track, has refused to install barriers or to get the trains to slow down to walking pace.43 • Mohammad Rahsepar (29), 29/01/2012 An Iranian asylum seeker hanged himself from the window of his room in the Würzburg asylum camp in Franconia, Bavaria. Doctors had diagnosed physical and mental strain from torture in Iran, exacerbated by having to stay in the camp. They reported that he was suicidal and urged that he be allowed to move in with his sister in Cologne, or that he be hospitalised. Neither was permitted. On the day of his death, he had gone to hospital with a bad headache, but no interpretation services were made available so he left a couple of hours later. When he was found dead, camp residents stated that he had ‘ended his struggle to find a way to be able to live with dignity in a human society’. Rahsepar’s death sparked a series of protests and hunger strikes all over Germany.44 • Barry B. (25), 13/02/2012 An asylum seeker from Sierra Leone was found dead in his cell within the central hospital of the Holstenglacis prison in Hamburg. Bubaker, who fled his country at the age of fifteen after being abused as a child soldier, was deemed not to be a child by the German authorities. He was refused asylum in 2002 and was only given temporary residency in 2007 on the basis of his mental and physical health problems (he had liver cirrhosis, epilepsy, anaemia, and IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 13