Suspicious death of a Tunisian asylum seeker in a detention centre
On 4 January 2010, a 31-year-old Tunisian asylum seeker died in a foreigners detention centre near Liege, three days after he was held there. After the police had described the death as "suspicious", the Belgian interior ministry foreigners' office claimed that it was drug-related, as the man was deemed a drug addict and the hypothesis on the cause of death by the coroner was a methadone and benzodiazepine overdose. The family in Tunisia denied that he was a drug addict and has confirmed that it will file a lawsuit. Local human rights associations and fellow detainees spoke of the possibility that the death may have resulted from an illness that received inadequate medical care.
Source: http://www.statewatch.org/news/2010/jan/01belgium-tunisian-death.htm
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