Unwanted, Unnoticed: an audit of 160 asylum and immigration-related deaths in Europe their deportation in what is believed to be a suicide attempt. The body of Isufaj was found washed up on Felixstowe beach on 20 March. No information is available on what happened to the second man.138 • Christine Case (40), 30/03/2014 A Jamaican migrant, Case died in the Yarl’s Wood IRC, Bedfordshire, of a blockage in her lungs. She was taken to the centre on 20 March because of problems with her immigration status, and was due to be deported to Jamaica. The inquest is ongoing, but the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has asked the government to respond to accusations that Case was denied medical assistance prior to her death.139 • Bruno Dos Santos (23), 04/06/2014 An African stateless asylum seeker, Dos Santos was found dead in his cell in HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland in Dorset. His statelessness meant he could not be sent back to his country of origin, and he had a child in Britain, but he had been detained for a long time. Prison officers believe that he died of natural causes; however, they note that he died a sudden death.140 • Rubel Ahmed (26), 05/09/2014 A Bangladeshi man, Ahmed died in Morton Hall IRC in Lincolnshire. At the time of writing, there are very few details of Ahmed’s death. Fellow detainees say that he had been in pain for some time and had been calling for help, but Ahmed’s family say they were told Rubel Ahmed, a Bangladeshi man, died in Morton Hall IRC in Lincolnshire in September 2014. by the Home Office that he had committed suicide. Ahmed’s family only found out about his death from his solicitor several hours later, after a fellow detainee called the solicitor.141 Notes 1. See Global Detention Project, available at: http:// www.globaldetentionproject.org/countries/europe/ austria/introduction.html (updated December 2014); ‘G4S wins ground-breaking Austrian government contract’, G4S (12 September 2013), available at: http://www.g4s.com/en/Media%20 Centre/News/2013/09/12/G4S%20wins%20groundbreaking%20Austrian%20Government%20contract/ 2. The Dublin Regulation specifies which European country has the responsibility for examining an asylum claim (usually the first EU country reached) and provides for asylum seekers to be returned there. 3. ‘Chechen asylum seeker commits suicide in Austria’, Waynakh.com (14 August 2010), available at: http://www.waynakh.com/eng/2010/08/chechenasylum-seeker-commits-suicide-in-austria/ 4. ‘Austrian medical officers found guilty in death of Chechen asylum seeker’, Waynakh.com (18 March 2014), available at: http://www.waynakh.com/ eng/2014/03/austrian-medical-officers-foundguilty-in-death-of-chechen-asylum-seeker/ 5. Nikolaj Nielsen, ‘Belgium’s asylum seeker fiasco’, Open Democracy (17 February 2011), available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/nikolaj-nielsen/ belgium’s-asylum-seeker-fiasco 6. UN Committee Against Torture criticises treatment of asylum seekers, European Database of Asylum Law, November 2013, available at: http://www. asylumlawdatabase.eu/en/content/un-committeeagainst-torture-critises-treatment-asylum-seekersconcluding-observations 7. See Accelerated removals: a study of the human cost of EU deportation policies, 2009-2010, IRR European Race Audit Briefing Paper No. 4 (October 2010), available at: http://www.irr.org.uk/pdf2/ ERA_BriefingPaper4.pdf 8. ‘Décês d’un demandeur d’asile au centre ouvert de Charleroi’, La Libre (11 June 2010), http:// www.lalibre.be/actu/belgique/deces-d-undemandeur-d-asile-au-centre-ouvert-de-charleroi51b8be4de4b0de6db9bbefb8 9. ‘Un Kosovar s’est suicidé’, La Libre (23 February 2012), available at: http://www.lalibre.be/ actu/belgique/un-kosovar-s-est-suicide51b8e68fe4b0de6db9c5ae0d 10. ‘Sa demande d’asile compromise, il se suicide’, DH.be (19 June 2013), available at: http://www.dhnet. be/actu/faits/sa-demande-d-asile-compromise-il-sesuicide-51c1280e357096ce4f18dd68 IRR | European Research Progamme Briefing No. 10 27