Unidentified number of human rights activists, judges, LGBTQ+ advocates and others also waiting to get out, sources say
- Afghanistan withdrawal: live updates
Two thousand Afghan interpreters and others who worked for the British government are still to be airlifted out of Kabul by the RAF, defence sources said, as the emergency evacuation reaches its final stages.
There also remain an unidentified number of “special cases” – human rights activists, judges, LGBTQ+ advocates and others – placed on a special list by the Foreign Office waiting to get out, plus a small number of single-nationality Britons.
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