Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe centre in Lausanne rather than be returned to Italy under the Dublin regulation. He had travelled to Switzerland around two years earlier, but had voluntarily returned to Italy, where he had indefinite residency. He returned to Switzerland in 2014, saying that life was impossible in Italy.120 UNITED KINGDOM The Asylzentrum Lukmanier, an asylum centre in the Swiss Alps, is one example of the isolation asylum seekers face in Switzerland. • Feras Farees Abdel Motaleeb (32), 14/03/2013 An Iraqi asylum seeker of Palestinian origin died in the Waldau ‘minimal centre’. Abdel Motaleeb had been living in Switzerland since 2008 and had preliminary leave to remain, which allowed him to begin work at a bakery. On his return from a visit to family members in Sweden, he was housed in a transit centre and then transferred to the Waldau centre for unknown reasons. He was discovered with serious head injuries on the centre’s site, an isolated group of containers serving as a detention centre for ‘problematic’ asylum seekers (mainly men with mental health disorders and/ or alcohol and drug problems). The conditions are cramped and there are no resident staff.118 • Moncef S. (25), 02/05/2013 A Tunisian asylum seeker committed suicide in Zurich after having his asylum request refused and being threatened with imminent deportation. Border police arrested him in mid-March, and he attempted suicide for the first time in an airport prison. He was then taken to a psychiatric ward, but fled at the beginning of May. Moncef was found dead in the cellar of his flat in a week before his twenty-sixth birthday.119 • Unidentified man (26), 29/10/2014 An Eritrean asylum seeker hanged himself in his cell in the Aarau/ Argovie detention SNAPSHOT: Indefinite detention for migrants in prison-like conditions, casual racism and brutality and medical neglect are among the issues raised in the UK. Judges have on several occasions ruled that detention of severely mentally ill migrants amounted to inhuman and degrading treatment, and hunger strikes and protests are common. Widespread destitution among refused asylum seekers, including families with children, causes despair.121 • Yurij Skruten, 01/2010 A Ukrainian man was found hanged in a disused pub in Brentford. His body was decomposed so the circumstances of his death were difficult to establish. He had apparently been living rough after his asylum claim had been refused.122 • Sergei (43), Tatiana and Stepan (19) Serykh, 07/03/2010 Three Russian asylum seekers died after falling from the fifteenth floor of the Red Road complex in Glasgow, where asylum seekers were housed by the YMCA under contract to the UKBA. According to media reports, Serykh’s family had been granted refugee status in Canada but were refused citizenship. Following disputes with authorities, they left and travelled to Europe, eventually seeking asylum in the UK in 2007. The family apparently settled in Newham (London), when their asylum claims were refused in December 2008. They then moved to Glasgow in 2009. On 15 February the family were told that they were to be deported. They were also thought to be IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 24