The brother of a Chinese migrant from Queens who hanged himself while in ICE custody months ago is suing the federal government, demanding answers and transparency about his brother’s death and the agency facility where it happened.

Relatives of Chaofeng Ge, 32, said he was isolated and desperate when he hanged himself in the shower over the summer at a Pennsylvania detention center following an arrest.

“I am devastated by the loss of my brother and by the knowledge that he was suffering so greatly in that detention center,” Ge’s brother, Yanfeng Ge, said in a written statement. “He did not deserve to be treated that way.”

A Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Yanfeng Ge against Immigration and Customs Enforcement was announced Wednesday at a press conference in lower Manhattan, w

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