MORE than 150 British Afghanistan embassy staff have yet to be relocated to Britain, with some saying they have been beaten and tortured by the Taliban, it was revealed today.

The staff worked for global security firm GardaWorld, which provided security at the British embassy in Kabul. 

Several shared photos of injuries they said were inflicted by Taliban soldiers, the BBC reported.

One man said he was recently beaten by the Taliban because of his previous job at the embassy.

“They started beating me and they threw me on the ground. They attacked me again and again,” he said.

It has been almost a year since the Taliban drove US forces out of Afghanistan, but the British government’s Afghan citizens resettlement scheme is only open for applications from next week. 

The government said the guards can apply for the scheme from June 20. 

Human rights charity Azadi’s director Sarah Mahill said the inaction of the British government has caused “incalculable trauma.”

“It is a deeply inhumane way to treat a body of staff entrusted to keep British ministers and civil servants safe,” she said. 

The warnings came as Justice Secretary Dominic Raab, who was foreign secretary when the Taliban seized control, defended the differential treatment of refugees from Ukraine compared to those from Syria and Afghanistan.

He said refugees from the latter required more vetting due to the “history of terrorism in the Middle East.”

A committee of MPs has said that Mr Raab’s decisions during the “chaotic operation cost lives.”

The government said its staff evacuated 15,000 people from Afghanistan within a fortnight “in the biggest and fastest emergency in recent history.”