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Germany: Tamil asylum seeker commits suicide

01 January 2001

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On 8 December 2000, the 17-year old asylum seeker, Arumugasamy Subramaniam, hanged himself in Hannover Langenhagen prison, shortly before he was due to be deported. He had been in Germany for over five years, and was in the process of being adopted by his uncle, who is resident in Germany. The authorities decided to enforce an immediate deportation order after his claim was rejected. This was despite his pleas not to be detained but to be returned to Sri Lanka of his own accord. The Aliens Office in Osnabruck ordered his imprisonment. According to asylum rights groups, 37 asylum seekers have committed suicide in immigration detention since 1993. In the Netherlands, also in December, Iranian asylum seeker Rasoul Mavali, who had been resident in Holland for six and a half years, hanged himself on hearing about his deportation order.

Nadir aktuell 13.12.01; junge Welt 14.12.01; Hambastegi no 94, 8.1.01.

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