London
Reuters
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Britain set up a secret scheme to relocate thousands of Afghans to the UK after a soldier accidentally disclosed the personal details of more than 33,000 people, putting them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban, court documents showed on Tuesday.
A judge at London’s High Court said in a May 2024 judgment first made public on Tuesday that about 20,000 people may have to be offered relocation to Britain, a move that would likely cost “several billion pounds.”
Britain’s current defense minister John Healey said that around 4,500 affected people “are in Britain or in transit … at a cost of around 400 million pounds.”
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