Journalists from the Times, the Mail and the Independent to give opening evidence on Afghan data breach and super-injunction
A group of journalists involved in the court proceedings on the super-injunction that prohibited reporting of the Afghan data breach for nearly two years will give evidence to the Defence Committee, at 10.30 on Tuesday 4 November.
Holly Bancroft from the Independent, Larisa Brown from the Times, and Sam Greenhill from the Daily Mail, will appear together.
Meeting details
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.
This evidence session builds on a joint submission of written evidence by the witnesses.