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MYSTERIOUS: 26 - What They Never Told You

‘We were lucky to escape Afghanistan alive – nine months later, we’re still waiting to be brought to safety’

Exclusive: Rayan and his extended family have welcomed two new babies in the time they have been waiting to be brought to the UK

The Independent UK

How were identities of thousands of Afghans leaked by UK military?

A superinjunction kept the data breach secret amid fears it could lead to a Taliban ‘hit list’.

Al Jazeera

Tory ex-ministers defend record as pressure mounts after Afghan data leak

Members of the previous administration are distancing themselves from the handling of the breach.

Evening Standard

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Grant Shapps pushed for MoD Afghan superinjunction to remain in place

Ex-Tory defence secretary wanted data breach affecting those at risk from Taliban to be secret for as long as possible, say MoD sources

The Guardian - UK

Political superinjunctions put governments beyond the law – these powers must never be used again

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Afghan leak scandal reveals how easy it is for governments to conceal terrible blunders for so long. The law must be changed so gagging orders cannot be secretly abused

The Independent UK

Tory ex-ministers defend record after PM demands ‘answers’ over Afghan data leak

The leak saw the details of almost 19,000 people seeking to flee Afghanistan released

Evening Standard

Special forces soldiers hit by data leak left in dark over Taliban threat

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Information that led to Afghan superinjunction being lifted was available last year, government admits

Fresh questions have been raised over why the unprecedented gagging order was maintained for so long when the level of risk to Afghans was known last year

The Independent UK

‘When that data falls into the hands of the Taliban it will lead to my arrest, torture and death’

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 for

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s fury over Afghan data breach as he warns Tories ‘have questions to answer’

On a dramatic day in Westminster, questions have been asked over why nobody was sacked for the data breach and why the information commissioner is not planning to investigate

The Independent UK

Betrayal after betrayal: Afghan special forces abandoned by Britain had details leaked in MoD data breach

Revealed: Elite troops who fought alongside UK troops were put at risk of danger after personal data was shared in catastrophic breach

The Independent UK

Commons at pompous worst as Afghan data breach proves too much bother for Badenoch

No one had anything to say about a cover-up kept secret from parliament, the public and the people whose data was leaked

The Guardian - UK

'Serious Questions' Over UK Secret Afghan Relocations: PM

Ministers in the UK's last Conservative government have "serious questions to answer" over a secret resettlement plan for thousands of Afghans after a data breach endangered their lives, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Wednesday.

International Business Times

Voices: We’re all owed an apology for the disastrous MoD data leak

COMMENT: Defiant politicians like Ben Wallace need to stop trying to wriggle out of the events that led to a superinjunction, writes Sean O'Grady – and own up to what led to this catastrophe

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How an email error sparked a secret scramble to bring Afghans to Britain

The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021

The Guardian - UK

‘Serious questions to answer’ over Afghan data breach, says Keir Starmer

PM says Tory ex-ministers have some explaining to do over error with Afghans’ details and secret resettlement scheme

The Independent UK

Starmer says Labour ‘inherited Tories’ failings’ from Afghan data leak, must answer ‘serious questions’

Sir Keir Starmer has said that the Conservatives have “serious questions to answer” over the Afghan data breach that put nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban.

Evening Standard

What is the Afghan data breach? Everything to know

The details to a secret Afghan relocation scheme has been revealed

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Euronews

Terror to tourism? Hostage-style video invites visitors to Taliban's Afghanistan

Darkly comic videos made by a tour agency and shared by Taliban-linked accounts on social media are encouraging people to travel to Afghanistan.

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‘The most expensive email ever’: Idiot Brit screws up and sends email that costs the government $8 billion

This is a true incompetence all-timer.

The Guardian - UK

No automatic right to resettlement for Afghans in data leak, says Healey

Defence secretary says it was ‘never the plan to bring everyone’ on dataset to UK, while Ben Wallace denies Tories sought superinjunction

Evening Standard

Healey: Accountability starts now over Afghan data leak and injunction

Thousands of people have been relocated to the UK as part of a secret scheme set up after data on Afghans who supported British forces was leaked.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer says Tory ministers have 'questions' to answer on data leak and secret route to UK for Afghans

At Prime Minister’s Questions, he sought to blame the previous Government for the data blunder which was kept quiet with a super injunction

The Independent UK

Inside the two-year battle to reveal MoD data breach that put 100,000 lives at risk

The Ministry of Defence used a super-injunction to cover up a major data breach that put the lives of nearly 100,000 Afghans at risk of being killed by the Taliban.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Afghan data breach is a shameful blight on our country - and a symptom of broader systemic failures

The government data breach of about 18,900 Afghans who had worked for Britain and British interests, and the attempts to conceal much of the detail under a legal superinjunction, are bewildering, convoluted and shameful. In all, the lives of some 80,000 Afghans and their families may have been put at…

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