{"id":72916,"date":"2025-07-17T03:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jul\/16\/the-spreadsheet-the-superinjunction-and-the-relocation-scheme-afghan-data-leak-timeline"},"modified":"2025-07-17T03:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T18:15:06","slug":"the-spreadsheet-the-superinjunction-and-the-relocation-scheme-afghan-data-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72916","title":{"rendered":"The spreadsheet, the superinjunction and the relocation scheme: Afghan data leak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 week<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jul\/15\/afghan-resettlement-scheme-secret-superinjunction-explainer\">What we know about the secret Afghan relocation scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2025\/jul\/16\/what-are-superinjunctions-afghan-data-breach-case\">What are superinjunctions and why was one imposed in this case?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two and a half years ago, a British soldier pressed \u201csend\u201d on an email that was to cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds and change the lives of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>That email contained the names and details of more than 18,000 people who had applied for asylum under the Afghan resettlement scheme, many of whom would have been obvious targets for reprisals by the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/jul\/16\/the-spreadsheet-the-superinjunction-and-the-relocation-scheme-afghan-data-leak-timeline\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4694,"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":[46,717,3366,2290,4,61,3365,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-immigration-and-asylum","category-injunctions","category-ministry-of-defence","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-superinjunctions","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72916","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\/4694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72916\/revisions\/72929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}