Hundreds of Afghan special forces wrongly rejected for sanctuary due to poor Ministry of Defence decisions, High Court judge finds
Supreme Court judges caused hundreds of Afghan special forces abandoned to the Taliban, who served as defective decision -making and the wrong rejection of the British for the shelter.
Afghan Commandos, who served with the Special Forces of the UK in Afghanistan, was left behind after the Taliban seized in 2021 and rejected a blanket for re -placement applications in the UK by the Ministry of Defense (MOD).
Thousands of applications are reviewed after accepting the failures of the government about how they were committed. Afghans are known as the names of their units, Komando Force 333 and Afghan Regional Force 444.
Now the Supreme Court has found that there are many flaws in the form of their cases.
Supreme Court judges ordered the government to publish a “transparent and accurate explanation ında about the scope of mode examination of cases.
The review was announced after a joint investigation of Independent, Sky News and Lighthouse reports, and revealed that Triples commandos were rejected for help and left to confront torture and death.
In a decision published on Tuesday, Lord Justice Dogamans and Mrs. Justice Farbey found that mode case workers could not correctly interpret the criteria for the re -establishment of England, and caused the Afghans to misrepresent.
Lord Dingenans said that MOD officials were “extremely dependent ve and“ giving a lot of weight to personal knowledge and judiciary ”.
In the decision, a UKSF contact officer who is responsible for investigating the connection of the applicants to the special forces will reject applications if he cannot respond to the relevant UKSF unit investigation.
Through the practices in the summer of 2023, a print on the direction of “sprint” led to a lack of lack of real assessment of practices ve and many Afghan Commandos rejected during this time.
The decision said that approximately 5,000 Afghan citizens serve with the British Partner triple units established and trained by the British.
The two judges also ordered MOD to correct the public record after giving false information to the Parliament about the scope of the government’s review of Armed Forces James Heappey.
Mr. Heappey, who announced MOD’s examination of the cases in February 2024, said that he would deal with MPS all the conformity decisions taken for applications that are reliable claims of reliable connections to Afghan expert units ”.
The government told the court that this was actually wrong and that the investigation covers the practices transmitted to the British Special Forces Contact Officer from the Afghan commandos.
Justice Dingenans said that the government’s evidence shows that “more than a reliable claim of connections to Afghan expert units should be within the scope of the investigation”. “It must have referred to a reference from the UK special forces or some other government organs and parties”.
“Considering the critical importance of the examination to the applicants” and “the evidence that the Taliban was tortured and killed would be illegal … Not to publish accurate information about the scope of the investigation”.
The judge ordered a transparent and correct explanation about the scope of Triples review ”.
The Supreme Court also decided that a corrected version of the government’s guidance was published in order to understand what Afghan applicants would characterize what to recover for the settlement.
Approximately 600 Afghan ally, whose applications were among the first 2,000 re -examined, were approved to come to England.
In addition to 2,000 applications, after recognizing the importance of the rediscovered payroll data, extra cases were detected for the examination.
Daniel Carey, the partner of DPG’s partner, who acted on behalf of the former Üçles, said, ız Our customer had to fight too much to achieve basic natural justice in this case: whether his soldiers were included in the government’s investigation;
“We are pleased that it was successful. There were serious concerns about rejection of Arab protection for thousands of trio who served closely with the UK special forces. It was very important that the investigation process was not hidden behind a veil of confidentiality.”
