Editor’s note: This story has been updated to include a response from a CoreCivic spokesperson and new information from federal public defender Debbie Jang.
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Twice in the last month, an Iranian man arrested and locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Arizona has gone on hunger strike to protest his detention. Now the man’s brother — who was arrested in Tempe last month in what a family immigration attorney believes to be an act of retaliation by ICE — is also refusing to eat during his own imprisonment…