Last month, the Labour government announced it had reached an agreement to deport any migrants arriving in the Chagos Islands in the British Indian Ocean territories (BIOT) to St Helena, an island in ...

Migrants stranded for years on the remote Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia will be offered the right to come to the UK, under a government proposal. Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamils have spent more than ...

A group of 60 Tamil migrants have reached the UK, the first to win approval to leave the remote Chagos islands after a protracted legal battle - Copyright AFP Tobias ...

A group of more than 60 asylum seekers were unlawfully detained by the UK on the remote island of Diego Garcia, a judge has ruled. The asylum seekers, who are Sri Lankan Tamils, arrived at the island ...

The UK government unlawfully detained Sri Lankan migrants on a remote military base for more than two years, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The Barron's news ...