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, Britain's asylum system is under heavy criticism
again following the suicide of a Kurdish Turk who
was being held in custody for months with no bail.
Ramazan Camlica, 19, took his own life after being
refused bail three times.
Camlica was found hanging in his cell at Campsfield
House in Oxfordshire, early on Monday. Apparently
the detainee had been at the centre so long,
approximately 5 - 7 months, that he was awarded his
own room, which gave him opportunity to hang himself
from the hinge of the door. this period of detention
is not usual said Kurdish community leaders living
in the UK as only those facing imminent deportation
are supposed to be detained.
Mr Camlica, paid Ł12,000 to escape Turkey last year,
but within hours of arriving in the UK was in
custody. Some say that he was running from his
military service as a Kurdish man from Gaziantep an
eastern-Anatolian city of Turkey, that he was
suffering from depression from an uncertain future,
a long-term health problem and the death of his
mother.
The scandal unfolded as Camlica's family weren't
informed by officials that he had taken his own
life, but by a reporter living in Turkey who was
requested by a British newspaper to research the
boy's background.
This raises worrying questions over the present
state of Britain's detention centers for asylum
seekers and the way that they are treated.
The Home Office would not release confirmation of
his death or identity, yesterday, but his friends
said that he used two belts to hang himself. Camlica
gave no hint that he was going to kill himself as he
stayed up late in Sunday night chatting with
friends.
He is the fifth asylum seeker in the past 12 months
to have taken his life while in detention.
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