From Global News.

British defence secretary John Healey said on Wednesday it is "highly unlikely" people on the Afghan relocation list are at risk of being targeted four years on from the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

Britain set up a secret scheme to bring thousands of Afghans to the UK after their personal details were disclosed in one of the country’s worst ever data breaches which put them at risk of reprisals from the Taliban after its return to power.

Concerns that individuals could be targeted by the Taliban led the previous Conservative government to set up the relocation scheme, which involved thousands of people and was estimated to cost the government about 2 billion pounds ($2.7 billion).

The leak by the Ministry of Defence in early 2022 – which led to data being published on Facebook the following year – and the secret relocation programme, were subject to a so-called superinjunction preventing the media reporting what happened. The superinjunction which was lifted by a court on Tuesday.

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