An independent inquiry has concluded that the suicide of 19-year-old Eritrean refugee Mulubrhane Medhane Kfleyosus in 2019 was due to a failure to address his mental health condition, The Guardian reports. Three of his fellow teenage refugees had already taken their own lives in the previous 16 months.
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.
A 14-year-old Syrian killed himself Sunday in a center for refugee families in the town of Glize in the Netherlands after he was refused asylum following years of travels between Spain and the Netherlands due to EU rules. His family said that he had been unable to deal any longer with living without a stable home after doing so for nine years.
After multiple suicide attempts over the past few days, migrants aboard the private rescue ship Ocean Viking will be moved to a quarantine vessel in Sicily.
Two asylum seekers in northern Greece have committed suicide. The two men, an Afghan and an Iraqi national, were found in the village of Mouries near the Greek border with North Macedonia.
Police have said the 31-year-old man was too injured to establish a motive, but suspected it was political. He is receiving treatment at a nearby burn trauma unit.
An Afghan asylum-seeker who was convicted of murdering a 15-year-old German girl in 2017 has been found dead in his prison cell. The murder case sparked months of anti-immigrant rallies and counterprotests.
A 20-year-old Ghanian migrant killed himself last week in a Caritas facility in Cremona. He was visiting a friend in the city and was hosted temporarily in the facility.
A 28-year-old Gambian migrant named Gaye Demba, who once lived at the occupied former Olympic village in Turin known as the ex-MOI, killed himself at a reception center run by the Diocese of Turin.
Germany has deported another group of Afghan asylum seekers back to Kabul. 21 men arrived in the capital on Wednesday morning, bringing the number returned to the country over the past three years to more than 530. Critics say Afghanistan is still too dangerous for the rejected asylum seekers.
A 22-year-old from Gambia who had been living in Italy for two years committed suicide. The Babele association said that his asylum request had been rejected and that ''he wanted to go back to Africa but he was afraid that he would be seen as a failure and was ashamed. He thought he had no other choice."
The suicide of a Georgian national at a deportation center in Germany has raised questions about the quality of care at such facilities, especially for those with mental illnesses. Politicians are now demanding answers to how the suicide could have happened.