
Thousands offered UK asylum in secret scheme after personal data of Afghans who helped British forces leaked by mistake – as it happened
Andrew Sparrow
created: July 15, 2025, 4:43 p.m. | updated: July 15, 2025, 5:51 p.m.
Journalists became aware of the leak, and a court granted a superinjunction preventing reporting of this.
He says a scheme was set up to relocate Afghans particularly at risk.
The review concluded there was a limted risk of retaliation by the Taliban to Afghans who were named on the original leak.
He says the review concluded the current ARR policy was an “extremely significant intervention to address the potentially limited net additional risk”.
He says about 900 have come to the UK or are in transit under the ARR scheme, with 3,600 family members.
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