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  Afghanistan

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After a data leak that put 19,000 people at risk, the British government relocated thousands of Afghans to the UK from August 2023 to protect them from the Taliban - at an estimated cost of 400 million pounds so far. Both the data breach and the evacuation scheme were kept strictly secret by means of a so-called 'superinjunction', which has now been lifted by the courts.