Records reveal Russian asylum seeker who died in Tacoma claimed to be a shaman fleeing prison torture

Records obtained through the Freedom of Immigration Act offer a rare look inside the asylum process and new details about the man who died after trying to hang himself in the Northwest Detention Center. He told officials he’d endured racist violence and prison torture – a story off limits to the public until now.

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