{"id":69550,"date":"2025-02-19T03:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/feb\/18\/kabul-evacuation-whistleblower-wins-case-against-uk-government"},"modified":"2025-02-19T03:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T18:42:04","slug":"kabul-evacuation-whistleblower-wins-case-against-uk-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69550","title":{"rendered":"Kabul evacuation whistleblower wins case against UK government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/feb\/18\/kabul-afghanistan-animal-airlift-whistleblower-employment-tribunal\">\u2018Pursue this urgently\u2019: whistleblower case reveals Whitehall focus on Kabul animal airlift<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A civil servant who blew the whistle about the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan and Boris Johnson\u2019s involvement in a decision to evacuate a pet charity from Kabul has won her case for unfair dismissal against the government in a legal first.<\/p>\n<p>An employment panel of three judges unanimously found the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) unfairly dismissed Josie Stewart in 2021 after she leaked information in the public interest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/feb\/18\/kabul-evacuation-whistleblower-wins-case-against-uk-government\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures\u2018Pursue this urgently\u2019: whistleblower case reveals Whitehall focus on Kabul animal airliftA civil servant who blew the whistle about the chaoti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1762,531,1204,319,1879,86,238,938,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-bbc","category-boris-johnson","category-civil-service","category-foreign-policy","category-foreign-commonwealth-and-development-office","category-law","category-media","category-military","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69551,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69550\/revisions\/69551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}