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Reuters
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The UK has set up a secret plan to relocate thousands of Afghans to the UK after soldiers misdisclosed more than 33,000 personal details and put them at risk of retaliation from the Taliban, court documents showed on Tuesday.
A London High Court judge said it was first made public on Tuesday in a May 2024 ruling. Approximately 20,000 people said they need to provide relocation to the UK.
UK’s current defense minister John Healy said about 4,500 affected people were “in the UK or in transit… at a cost of around £400 million.”
The government is also facing lawsuits from those affected by the violation, further increasing the ultimate cost of the case.
The Data Breach Department’s Review Department also said that as of May this year, more than 16,000 affected people had moved to the UK.
The British government was forced to act after revealing the names of the Afghans who helped British troops in Afghanistan before withdrawing from the country in 2021 under chaotic circumstances.
Details appeared on Tuesday. After the legal ruling known as symptoms has been lifted. The injunction was granted in 2023 after the mod claimed that disclosure of the violation could put people at risk of serious killings or serious violence by the Taliban.
The dataset contained personal information from around 19,000 Afghans who applied to relocate to the UK and their families.
In early 2022, the mod was accidentally released before the violation was discovered in August 2023, when some of the datasets were published on Facebook.
The former Conservative government received an injunction the following month.
Kiel Starmer, Prime Minister of Government, Centre Left, who was elected last July, discovered that while Afghanistan remains in danger, there is little evidence of intent to carry out a campaign of retaliation.
