Johnson's government failed to deport them to Britain

British Council teachers in Afghanistan hide from Taliban

The Taliban used to search for those who were cooperating with NATO forces in Afghanistan.

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Nearly 100 former Afghan staff of the British Council hired to teach British values ​​and the English language are still hiding in Afghanistan, after British officials have so far denied them the right to come to the UK.

Their plight was alerted to their plight by the former director of English for the British Council in Afghanistan, Joseph Seton, who wrote to the most relevant members of the Cabinet in an effort to win their support.

The British government confined in Kabul, in August, hundreds of those approved for evacuation to the United Kingdom, but they are still trapped in Afghanistan.

Staff have applied to come to the UK under the government's resettlement and assistance policy, which was drawn up earlier this year, but Seton says their applications remain unprocessed and unanswered, months after they were submitted.

Seton served as Director of English at the British Council in Kabul, and was Deputy Director from 2016 to 2020.

Seton told the Guardian: “These people live in constant fear for their lives, and were contracted under a British government-funded scheme to teach English language teachers British values ​​of diversity, inclusion and equality, which they (the Taliban) oppose, and were always told that they were employees of British government.”

In an email sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson shortly after the fall of Kabul in September, Seton warned that "many of them (the Taliban) visited them in their homes, or the homes of their relatives, asked questions and were threatened, many of whom had to Moving to another place, while others live in hiding.”

In the memo, which was also distributed to other ministers, he added: "Teachers have served in very high profile public confrontation roles, many of them female, and they have all been representing the British Council, working to promote the language, culture and values ​​of the United Kingdom. The UK is to ensure that they are transferred to the UK as soon as possible.”

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