Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
Journalists from the Times, the Mail and the Independent will give opening evidence on the Afghan data breach and on the super-injunction that prohibited reporting of the Afghan data breach for nearly two years will give evidence to the Defence Committee.
Holly Bancroft from the Independent, Larisa Brown from the Times, and Sam Greenhill from the Daily Mail, will appear together.
Members are likely to ask for the witnesses’ personal perspective on the unprecedented use of a super-injunction to protect those affected by the data breach, which also suppressed public debate and media and parliamentary scrutiny of the breach and the Government’s response to it.
The witnesses are also likely to be asked about the risk of Afghans who worked with UK forces being targeted for reprisals due to the data breach, as well as more generally.