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Journalists have attacked the previous government’s “Orwellian leap” in the use of a gagging order to cover up a massive data leak which potentially put more than 100,000 Afghans at risk.
The superinjunction used by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) followed the February 2022 leak of details of thousands of Afghans, who feared they were in danger from the Taliban because of their links to UK forces and wanted to apply for sanctuary in Britain.
The unprecedented global superinjunction not only prevented the media from reporting on the leak, but also kept parliament in the dark, with the result that there was no scrutiny of a secret resettlement scheme which brought tens of thousands of Afghans to Britain.
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