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Labour Quietly Freezes Chagos Permit System After Damaging Court Defeat
4+ hour, 20+ min ago (633+ words) The timing is striking. It came on the very same day that the Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory, presided over by Chief Justice James Lewis KC, handed down a historic judgment in favour of the Chagossian people....
Return to Chagos: Six Men, a Forgotten Homeland, and a Discovery That Could Rewrite Natural History
3+ day, 12+ hour ago (382+ words) It is this isolation that now raises an extraordinary question, could such conditions have allowed something thought lost to the world to quietly endure? What the men did not expect to find was life believed to be gone forever. "At…...
The Chagos Judgment That Changes Everything: The Law, the Fiction, and the Return of a People
4+ day, 10+ hour ago (405+ words) That finding alone is historic. It dismantles the legal foundation upon which the exclusion of the Chagossians has rested for a generation. But the judgment goes further still. It confronts, directly and unequivocally, one of the most controversial claims at…...
Chagossians Return to Court in Fight to Remain on Ancestral Islands
3+ week, 1+ day ago (654+ words) It arises from the government's attempt to remove the men after they landed on one of the remote islands earlier this year in a symbolic attempt to return home. The claimants: Louis Misley Mandarin, Louis Michel Mandarin, Louis Antoine Lemettre…...
Britain Must Not Expel the Chagossians Again
3+ week, 1+ day ago (1550+ words) The sheer obscenity of the proposition bears repeating. Britain forcibly exiled the Chagossians from their homeland between the late 1960s and 1973. It then spent decades defending the consequences of that expulsion in court, in Parliament and in diplomacy. And now, in…...
Chagossians Denied Justice in High Court Ruling as Questions Mount Over Timing
3+ week, 4+ day ago (501+ words) The legal challenge was led by KC Philip Rule, alongside barrister James Tumbridge, acting on behalf of the Chagossian claimants. Despite the clear moral and constitutional importance of the issue, the Court has now declined to allow the challenge to…...
Out of Touch on Chagos: a shameful ruling that tells exiled islanders they still do not count
3+ week, 4+ day ago (570+ words) That phrase will sting. So will the outcome. That is not a triumph of judicial restraint. It looks much more like judicial detachment. And yet the judge's core answer was that the case was really an attack on the'Treaty'itself, and…...
CHAGOS: There Is a Much Better Deal to Put on the Table, Mr Ambassador
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (429+ words) In a tweet, the United States Ambassador to the UK, Warren A. Stephens, subsequently said that while the transfer was not great, it was the best available option. "The ideal outcome would be for the UK not to transfer sovereignty of…...
Chagos at the Centre of the Deep Sea Minerals Race — Why Britain Should Think Twice Before Giving Up Control
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (621+ words) Behind the legal arguments and carefully worded communiqu's lies a far larger strategic reality, one that could carry immense long term consequences if Britain proceeds with a handover. It is the defining resource contest of the twenty first century, the…...
STARMER GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF FAILING TO DEFEND BRITISH TERRITORY AFTER MALDIVES MOVE
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (226+ words) There has been no public indication that Starmer's Labour government has attempted to remove Maldivian coast guard vessels or aerial surveillance systems from the area, nor any sign of urgent diplomatic escalation or maritime enforcement. The absence of visible action…...