伊朗裔美国人法律辩护基金会于周二提起诉讼，指控特朗普政府一直向伊朗当局泄露伊朗籍避难申请者的涉密个人信息。
这份诉状提交至美国华盛顿特区法院，诉状指出，不少前往美国寻求庇护的伊朗人，都是国内亲民主抗议人士、宗教少数群体成员以及性少数群体人士，他们因在伊朗身处极大危险，才远赴美国寻求安身之地。
该基金会在诉状中表示：“将这些人的私密信息透露给伊朗政府，既侵犯了避难申请者的信息保密权，也让那些面临遣返、或是会经由第三国被间接遣送回伊朗的人陷入险境。他们一旦回到伊朗，极有可能遭到迫害、酷刑甚至遇害，同时还会连累依旧留在伊朗的亲友。”
据伊朗裔美国人法律辩护基金会统计，特朗普执政期间，已有超百人被遣送回伊朗。
诉状提到，美国政府虽可与接收国协调遣返相关事务，但联邦法规明确禁止泄露或变相透露当事人曾提交避难申请这类信息。
本次诉讼由公益消费者维权组织 “公众公民” 代为发起，该机构表示，此举既违反了联邦信息保密相关规定，危及避难者留在伊朗的亲友性命，也让遭遣返人员归国后面临生命安全威胁。
美国海关与移民执法局隶属于美国国土安全部，该部门发言人在回应美国广播公司采访时明确表态：“有关移民执法局向伊朗政府泄露避难申请资料的相关指控均为不实消息。”
其声明称：“移民执法局会与各国对接，为在押人员办理相关出境通行手续。我们始终保障外籍人员知晓自身有权联系本国领事人员。依照既定流程与相关法律法规、部门规章，我方会为外籍人员联络本国领事馆提供便利，配合领事人员探视在押人员。”
美国国务院相关负责人暂未对此事作出回应。
原告方还指控，在当前美伊交战的背景下，特朗普政府依旧没有停止此类信息互通行为。据悉，美伊双方曾每月召开会议，互通被移民执法局关押伊朗人员的移民档案，其中包含最终遣返裁定文书以及避难申请材料。
尽管早在 2 月 28 日美伊开战前，双方线下月度会面就已暂停，但原告方称，移民执法局仍持续以邮寄、当面递送的方式，向伊朗驻美利益代表处递交各类文件材料。
诉状同时披露，伊朗相关人员还前往移民执法局拘留中心，约谈了数十名在押伊朗人员。
诉状写道：“多名在押伊朗人员本不愿与伊朗驻美利益代表处人员会面，却被移民执法局强制要求见面。”
据有过会面经历的在押人员透露，对方工作人员早已掌握自己的移民案件详情，就连避难申请里的具体内容都一清二楚。这种非自愿的会面，让这些避难者确信，自己早已被自己逃离的高压政权摸清了底细。
目前，伊朗裔美国人法律辩护基金会已向华盛顿联邦法院提请诉求：勒令美国政府停止向伊朗方面输送各类涉密信息，同时指派独立专员，对已经外泄的伊朗在押人员档案展开全面核查。
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The Iranian American Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging the Trump administration has been sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with theIranian government.
According to the complaint filed in Washington, D.C., many Iranian asylum seekers are pro-democracy protesters, members of religious minorities, or members of the LGBTQ community who seek refuge in the U.S. "because of the grave dangers they face in Iran."
"Disclosing their confidential information to the Iranian Government violates the asylum seekers' confidentiality rights, puts those who are subject to removal to Iran, directly or through chain refoulement via third countries, at risk of persecution, torture, and death following their arrival in Iran, and endangers their family members and acquaintances who may still be residing in Iran," the group said in the complaint.
More than 100 people have been deported to Iran during the Trump administration, according to the IALDF.
The group wrote in the complaint that while the U.S. government may coordinate logistics with receiving countries, federal regulations prohibit the sharing of information that would "reveal or infer that the individual to be removed had applied for asylum."
"Disclosing their confidential information to the Iranian government violates federal regulations requiring confidentiality, endangers their family members and acquaintances who may still be residing in Iran, and puts those who are subject to removal to Iran at risk of persecution, torture, and death following their arrival in Iran," said Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group that is representing the IALDF.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, which operates Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement to ABC News, "These allegations that ICE shared asylum application records with the Iranian government are FALSE."
"ICE meets and works to get travel documents for detainees with every country. ICE is committed to ensuring that illegal aliens are informed of their right to communicate with their consular representatives," the statement said. "Consistent with established protocols, ICE provides illegal aliens the opportunity to contact their consular post and facilitates consular access to detained individuals, in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, and agency policy."
A representative of the State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.
The IALDF complaint alleges that the Trump administration has continued to share confidential information during thecurrent warbetween the U.S. and Iran. The group claims the two governments held monthly meetings to share the immigration files of Iranians in ICE custody, including final orders of removal and applications for asylum.
While the monthly in-person meetings reportedly stopped before the war began on Feb. 28, the group alleges that ICE has "continued to mail or hand deliver document packages to the Iranian Interest Section."
The complaint also alleges that Iranian officials have met with dozens of detainees at ICE facilities.
"Many of the Iranian detainees did not consent to meet with the Iranian Interest Section officials but were required to do so by ICE," the filing says.
"According to Iranian detainees who met with an Iranian Interest Section official, the official had knowledge of their immigration cases, including the details of their asylum applications," the suit said. "These nonconsensual meetings with the Interest Section official solidified the detainees' belief that they had been identified to the very same repressive government that they had fled."
The IALDF is asking a federal judge in Washington to block the government from providing confidential information to the Iranian government and to appoint a special master to review the files of Iranian detainees that have already been shared.
