A lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security by the brother of Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old Chinese immigrant who died at a Central Pennsylvania detention facility.

At the Moshannon Valley Processing Center on Aug. 5, Ge was found dead in a shower stall with a cloth wrapped around his neck and with his legs and hands tied behind his back, according to the lawsuit.

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Yangeng Ge , the detainee's brother, filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, claiming federal officials unlawfully ignored his Freedom of Information Act request seeking answers about his brother'

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