Why thousands have fled the Taliban regime for Great Britain and how Britain's coervative party AA Super-Injuction- The Week said goodbye to the week

In 2023, ministers and civil servants in the British Ministry of Defense panic (Mod) when they found that a Facebook post had filed some data from a table that contained the personal data of around 18,700 Afghans that applied for for the country.

The realization hit late because the leak took place in 2022. The ministers immediately covered them and passed a super instructor so that the leak could not be found and reported. They feared that thousands of Afghans could be endangered if the information reached the hands of the Taliban, which had now gained control of the country.

Great Britain then hurried to create the Afghanistan Response Route (ARR) in April 2024, which offered to change around 15,000 Afghans in a secret system that cost £ 2 billion.

The super-in-lights that prevented the media from reporting about the leak was lifted by the court on Thursday.

According to CNN, the incident was classified as one of the worst data leaks in modern British history. The costs and the leak could have cost the life of thousands of Afghans. Not only did the leak also contain information about the members of the parliament and high -ranking military officers that helped Afghan soldiers who fought with the British military to Great Britain.

The British Defense Minister John Healey apologized for the leak in the House of Commons and said: “This serious data incident should never have happened” and “it could have taken place three years ago under the previous government, but for all whose data was at risk, I offer a sincere sorry.”

He also added that nobody else from Afghanistan was offered asylum due to the data leak in the country.

What was in the leak?

The leak occurred when an official accidentally sent the table outside the government team an e -mail that edited the Afghan move in February 2022. In the table, the names, contact information and family documents of 18,700 Afghans, who had requested themselves to pull to Great Britain according to the Afghan moving and auxiliary policy (Arap) to flee the Taliban. Many of the applications were made by soldiers who fought in Afghanistan next to the British army.

The data made it in public until the ministers recognized it in August 2023 in accordance with the BBC. The names of nine people who applied to move to Great Britain appeared on Facebook. The Facebook post was made by an Afghan man who was refused to move. Later he took off the post when he offered a review of his application. He does not see any criminal complaints.

The police had decided that no investigation was required. The officer does not hold the post that he had more than the leak passed.

The British government then tried to suppress the knowledge of the table and the data by passing the court monitor monitoring on September 1, 2023 under the former conservative government. The injunction was extended twice between 2023 and 24.

The injunction was checked in July last July after the government of Prime Minister Keir Stranders came to power.

The people whose data was leaked were informed after the injunction was lifted on July 15th.

Another injunction was partially lifted on Thursday, which showed that the information and details of the British special forces and spies were also in the leak.

The super-in-in-monitoring

The application for the injunction was submitted by the then Defense Minister Ben Wallace. The request was to criminalize all measures that would make the leak public. Justice Knowles, who checked the command, has improved the request to a surviving transfer, which also made it illegal to talk about the existence of the court decision.

Another judge, Justice Chamberlain, who also regularly checked the arrangement, said it was the first of his kind and expressed concerns about freedom of speech.

The government's reaction and the move

After the leak, the British government hired the Arr, which differs from the existing ARAP system. Defense Minister John Healy said last week that around 900 people had already been moved to Great Britain or were on the way, as well as their family members. 600 more offers were also made, including for their family.

By May 2025, it is estimated that more than 16,000 Afghans have moved from the 36,000 to Great Britain that were considered endangered.

On Saturday, the mod said that they would not compensate for thousands of Afghans, whose data was leaked, but did not evacuate to Great Britain.

According to a cabinet office, both the ARAP and the ARR were closed due to the strain on the British asylum and immigration system. If the systems were open, this would mean that the country would have to move a total of 25,000 Afghans.

The British government estimated that all efforts to move Afghans since 2021 have cost around £ 5.5 to 6 billion.