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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

‘Shameful’: Afghans who helped UK abandoned to a life of fear under the Taliban

Joseph Seaton of the British Council with Afghan teachers in 2019
Joseph Seaton of the British Council with Afghan teachers in 2019. Photograph: Handout

Thousands of Afghans who worked for the UK have been abandoned and remain at risk from the Taliban a year after the evacuation from Kabul, a coalition of human rights groups has said.

In a parliamentary briefing, nine expert groups on Afghanistan criticised the British government’s resettlement schemes as “unjustifiably restrictive”. They said it was deeply concerning that the government is currently not offering a safe route for many Afghan women and girls or to oppressed minority groups.

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