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Dan Sabbagh on the data leak that may have cost hundreds of millions of pounds – and put Afghan lives at riskThis week an email was sent to people in Afghanistan. It told the recipients, who had all worked for British forces in Afghanistan, that some o…
Afghans exposed in 2022 UK data breach fear for their own and their families’ safety and say it is a betrayal by country they risked their lives forHere are the voices of Afghans whose details were included in a 2022 data leak, which was made public on…
One email in February 2022 set off a chain of events that affected the lives of thousands of Afghans, but few knew about it until this weekWhat we know about the secret Afghan relocation schemeWhat are superinjunctions and why was one imposed in this c…
Law firm representing thousands says some already killed and others in hiding as a result of government ‘blunder’Thousands of Afghans relocated to UK under secret scheme after data leakWhen Abdullah received an email from the British government saying …
Accidental data breach that put Afghans at risk and led to covert resettlement scheme was subject to superinjuctionThousands of Afghans relocated to UK under secret scheme after data leak Continue reading…
Commons remain tone deaf as superinjunction lifts lid on data leak and £800m Afghanistan Response RouteI suppose we might have guessed something like this. In August 2021, the then foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, had moaned about the “sea being closed…
Conservative government used superinjuction to hide error that put Afghans at risk and led to £2bn mitigation schemeWhat we know about the secret Afghan relocation schemeAfghan nationals: have you arrived in the UK under the Afghan Response Route?Conse…
Johnny Mercer tells UK inquiry of reports SAS had killed civilians between 2010 and 2013The UK’s minister for veterans, Johnny Mercer, has effectively admitted in front of a public inquiry that he believed members of the SAS had engaged in dozens of un…
MoD conducts review but stands accused of conflict of interest while public inquiry investigates conduct of SAS in AfghanistanElite Afghan commandos who fought alongside the British military have had their applications to relocate blocked by UK special…
MoD acknowledged at preliminary hearing that ‘UK special forces’ were present in AfghanistanA partial admission by the defence secretary that UK special forces were present in Afghanistan risks discrediting a public inquiry investigating allegations of…
Lawyers for bereaved families allege British soldiers carried out policy of terminating all fighting-age menEighty Afghans may have been victim of summary killings by three separate British SAS units operating in the country between 2010 and 2013, lawy…
Citizens who worked with British government or helped army told to get necessary documents stamped by the authoritiesThe Ministry of Defence has apologised after an investigation found Afghan applicants to a resettlement scheme were told they could onl…
MoD concedes to longstanding demands for statutory inquiry into allegations dating back to 2010Ministers have announced a statutory judge-led inquiry into allegations of more than 50 summary killings by SAS soldiers in Afghanistan, a decision made afte…
MoD personnel escorted refugees away from Diego Garcia in boat with no record of having radio or lifesaving equipment, lawyers sayLawyers have accused the UK of facilitating dangerous onward boat journeys by Tamil refugees who had arrived at the Britis…
Emails disclosed by lawyers for two families of victims suggested police told to ignore role of senior officers“Political pressure” was applied in 2016 to narrow the focus of a military police investigation into allegations of summary killings by SAS s…